There is a minor tempest brewing in the marketplace and church about how the Millenials (twenty-something’s and younger) get along with Boomers (47 to 63). It wasn’t such a hard task for Busters/Gen X and Boomers to get along. My experience in working with churches showed that busters and boomers were close enough […]

One of the creative and driving forces of the 70’s Jesus awakening died in February. I just heard about it yesterday. Larry Norman was a controversial figure in the Jesus People movement and for decades after. He left a touching note to his audience which can be found at his website www.larrynorman.com. […]

There are crucial dates in every era that mark the generations. December 7, 1941 was the day of the Pearl Harbor attacks that brought the U.S. into a war that marked our history for generations. The atomic age was introduced on August 6, 1947. Thank God no other such attack has been […]

If you live long enough you outlive a few friends and numerous pets. Grief becomes a necessary tool of life. And I think replenishing your circle of relationships, both animals and human, becomes essential. But loss is an unavoidable pain for all of us. Some of us have gotten more practice […]

Rock and Roll hasn’t really changed much the last four years. The drums are pretty much the same.  Guitars have quit a number of new effects pedals and such. The best amps are still the ones from the 60’s like Vox made.   

I played in a few rock bands like 20% […]

My wife wanted to buy a scale for the house a couple days ago. She said it would help us keep our weight in control. Now, my wife could use a few pounds on her and I am pretty much like most of my boomer friends carting around a few pounds beyond factory […]

For a while now it has been a stretch for me to think of baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964,  as a cohesive group. That’s a long period of time and there was a lot of unique history that passed in that period of time. I recently read some work on […]

Only Baby Boomers can remember vinyl discs (well maybe our parents). I still prefer vinyl discs because I prefer the analog format. But I also enjoy a two-sided presentation of albums. Various groups can still purchase vinyls in rare occasions but all records when I was growing up were vinyl records with about 20 minutes […]

I remember when Larry Norman recorded the first Christian Rock record to be released in 1970. It was a major start in the Christian Rock genre that helped push along a Baby Boom revival. The song, “I wish we’d all been ready,” was also a representation of the eschatologically-inclined generation.
I recall the new […]

I was sitting in the Edwards Cinema in Boise, Idaho when a thought struck me. Isn’t a big part of our life journey learning how to live with our past?
I am moving this month after living within a four-block radius for over 25 years. My life is filled with memories in my neighborhood. I have […]

This is the million-dollar question regarding the boomers, how will they finish? Will they finish well? Do we boomers see that our cough becomes pneumonia?
It is likely that boomer Christian leaders will take on greater impact than those we have seen from past generations. We already know boomers are going to have to work longer […]

Someone asked me the other day what I though about boomer retirement. I told them I didn’t think there would be as much of that as most hoped. Only about one third of boomers are financially ready to retire. And a significant portion of the generation isn’t going to want to retire. The generation could […]