Crowder, who claims he met Jesus while on an acid trip, suggests that ‘intimacy with God’ is expressed by living in a trance-like, spiritually drunken state of ecstacy. This is then presented as ‘the presence of God’ and the advancement of the Kingdom of God.
The new four-part TV spin-off from Shane Meadows movie This is England, This is England ‘86 will revisit the lives of Shaun, Woody, Lol
and the rest of the This is England characters in 1986, and it’s coming to the BBC in September.
More here.
Just scored this Jim Jones Integrity shirt, which may be particularly offensive to wear around here as The People’s Temple was Headquartered down the street.
My fascination with Jim Jones is more about how people who are so desperate to change the world around them are so quick and willing to surrender reason.
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Netflix and Google Video) is a good starting point if somehow you are unfamiliar…