Early Christian rock

Slate published an article last week looking into some of the most striking Christian rock musicians of the 1960s and '70s, and those who influenced them.

Both "this present age" and the next, both righteousness and wickedness, show themselves unmistakably in these few paragraphs. The Jesus People movement and Christian rock did much to remake American Christendom in the second half of the twentieth century, both for good and for ill. The Lord God does not accomplish His purposes on earth in a vacuum. People like Lonnie Frisbee--an ex-druggie hippie youth minister, instrumental to the growth of both Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard Movement, but who struggled with homosexuality and eventually died of AIDS--are the kind of people we ought to expect to encounter in the Christian Church. We are, after all, a people still stretched out between sin and righteousness, hoping against hope for a salvation that is as certain as God's promise.