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Article: Altar call: Bob Dylan's songs are born again. (Music).
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- July 1, 2003
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In 1979, Bob Dylan encountered Jesus and ticked off a generation. For this modern-day secular prophet to find his own answers in organized religion--in something so conventional as Christianity--felt to many like betrayal, or the ultimate lunacy. The man didn't even have the decency to acquire his own guru.
"To sell your soul to the Devil is fascinating, to sell it to God is boring," writes Steve Turner in Hungry for Heaven: Rock 'n' Roll and the Search for Redemption. The post-conversion Dylan could, in fact, be tedious. The audiences at his live shows at the time just as often encountered Bob the preacher man as Bob the singer/songwriter. His sermons--and ...