The Crucible of the Sixties as a Portal to Orthodoxy
by Robert Benne

Formative Years: 1937–1965

I was born in 1937, old enough to remember the surrenders of both the Germans and then the Japanese at the end of World War II, as well as the soccer playing of the German prisoners of war who were interned in our town, West Point, Nebraska. The young Americans coming back from the war wanted to marry and have children. The churches were burgeoning; some church historians call this period the Third Great Awakening. Martin Marty, who along with Ralph Bohlman and Fred Niedner grew up in West Point, noticed that the county was 105% churched.

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