An article and response illustrating the right and left political tug of war in America in 2024. We might understand one another better if we discussed our assumptions. We might understand each other better if we wanted to understand each other. As Christians, we must be involved, but we must put Christ first and politics later.
Initial article by J. Damon Cain columnist, Beckley Register-Herald
Apr 19, 2024
Bob Dylan’s third studio album, “The Times They Are a-Changing,” was released in February of 1964. A departure from his first two efforts, the disc featured only original compositions, stark and sparsely arranged ballads that offered a critical if not searing examination of the myriad issues in that decade of seismic change so long ago. Racism, poverty and social change primarily dominated the headlines and the discussion, big issues those. The storm clouds of the counterculture movement and the protests over our nation’s involvement in Vietnam were just forming on a distant horizon. Lightning was flashing.