Howard LaRue

Emmanuel Rector (1969-1995)

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Vietnam had entered its more controversial stance, and…regardless of feelings on Vietnam, pro or con, we prayed particularly for those men and women who were serving…There was one thing that seemed big at the time… Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell were coming out and there was a lot of antagonism on that and I recall that with our Youth Group, we went to see it, and we came away talking about it, and we discussed it for weeks afterward in our Youth meeting. And it seemed to me that regardless of how controversial that was at the time, it opened up the ability to talk about these things.