Annie Dawid

One is he feels Indiana's inhospitable to their mixed congregation. But the other is that like many people in the early 60s, there's a great fear of a nuclear bomb. And Esquire magazine runs this story. piece saying, these are the 10 best places in the world where you'll be safest if the bomb drops.

One is he feels Indiana's inhospitable to their mixed congregation. But the other is that like many people in the early 60s, there's a great fear of a nuclear bomb. And Esquire magazine runs this story. piece saying, these are the 10 best places in the world where you'll be safest if the bomb drops.

One is he feels Indiana's inhospitable to their mixed congregation. But the other is that like many people in the early 60s, there's a great fear of a nuclear bomb. And Esquire magazine runs this story. piece saying, these are the 10 best places in the world where you'll be safest if the bomb drops.

So he chooses the Redwood Valley near Ukiah, California, Northern California, which is at the time pretty white itself and very rural. And so he says, okay, who's coming with me? And I think the numbers are about 110. people follow him, 40 families roughly. And they go in a caravan out to Northern California. And it's there that the church starts expanding. So that was 65.

So he chooses the Redwood Valley near Ukiah, California, Northern California, which is at the time pretty white itself and very rural. And so he says, okay, who's coming with me? And I think the numbers are about 110. people follow him, 40 families roughly. And they go in a caravan out to Northern California. And it's there that the church starts expanding. So that was 65.

So he chooses the Redwood Valley near Ukiah, California, Northern California, which is at the time pretty white itself and very rural. And so he says, okay, who's coming with me? And I think the numbers are about 110. people follow him, 40 families roughly. And they go in a caravan out to Northern California. And it's there that the church starts expanding. So that was 65.

And so if you think about the context of what's going on in America, we have the rise of the anti-war movement. We have a lot of white college kids who want to change the world. So initially, it's kind of that segment that starts growing in the church. And a lot of his Black followers grow up in the Black church. And so he can really speak to them with his style of preaching.

And so if you think about the context of what's going on in America, we have the rise of the anti-war movement. We have a lot of white college kids who want to change the world. So initially, it's kind of that segment that starts growing in the church. And a lot of his Black followers grow up in the Black church. And so he can really speak to them with his style of preaching.

And so if you think about the context of what's going on in America, we have the rise of the anti-war movement. We have a lot of white college kids who want to change the world. So initially, it's kind of that segment that starts growing in the church. And a lot of his Black followers grow up in the Black church. And so he can really speak to them with his style of preaching.

But to the college educated, that style of preaching is not anything they're used to. So he's developing, and I'm not saying it was insincere, he's developing the political part of the church, which is so egalitarian that he calls himself a socialist. And he says, that's what the world should be. It should be socialist, goods should be distributed equally.

But to the college educated, that style of preaching is not anything they're used to. So he's developing, and I'm not saying it was insincere, he's developing the political part of the church, which is so egalitarian that he calls himself a socialist. And he says, that's what the world should be. It should be socialist, goods should be distributed equally.

But to the college educated, that style of preaching is not anything they're used to. So he's developing, and I'm not saying it was insincere, he's developing the political part of the church, which is so egalitarian that he calls himself a socialist. And he says, that's what the world should be. It should be socialist, goods should be distributed equally.

And so many young people, including a bunch of white-collar types like lawyers and teachers, are attracted to the church for that reason, not for... the Pentecostal preaching.

And so many young people, including a bunch of white-collar types like lawyers and teachers, are attracted to the church for that reason, not for... the Pentecostal preaching.

And so many young people, including a bunch of white-collar types like lawyers and teachers, are attracted to the church for that reason, not for... the Pentecostal preaching.

Yeah. So the healings he discovers bring a lot of people. Like he's a showman. He's a great showman. They end up going on these national tours where they have this fleet of Greyhound buses eventually that take all of them all over the country and they do these services, and the healings are, I suppose, an evangelistic kind of standby, if you're the right kind of preacher.

Yeah. So the healings he discovers bring a lot of people. Like he's a showman. He's a great showman. They end up going on these national tours where they have this fleet of Greyhound buses eventually that take all of them all over the country and they do these services, and the healings are, I suppose, an evangelistic kind of standby, if you're the right kind of preacher.

Yeah. So the healings he discovers bring a lot of people. Like he's a showman. He's a great showman. They end up going on these national tours where they have this fleet of Greyhound buses eventually that take all of them all over the country and they do these services, and the healings are, I suppose, an evangelistic kind of standby, if you're the right kind of preacher.

So yeah, he heals people, supposedly, he brings people back from the dead, supposedly. And, and I guess he's very, very convincing. You know, I mean, as a As a natural born skeptic, I never would have believed it, but he manages to make it believable. And of course, he has this little inner core of workers who make these possible and do all kinds of nefarious things to make the healings look real.

So yeah, he heals people, supposedly, he brings people back from the dead, supposedly. And, and I guess he's very, very convincing. You know, I mean, as a As a natural born skeptic, I never would have believed it, but he manages to make it believable. And of course, he has this little inner core of workers who make these possible and do all kinds of nefarious things to make the healings look real.