Bound for Glory – The Image of God and the Future of Human Being
When Bob Met Woody On the road to becoming Bob Dylan, Robert Allen Zimmerman had many heroes, but only one idol: Depression-era balladeer, Woody Guthrie (1912-1967). He wanted to sound like Woody, look like Woody, and write like Woody. During his lifetime Guthrie penned 1,000 songs, and in 1943 published the first 20th-century road-trip-odyssey: Bound for Glory. Hitchhiking and hopping freight trains across the United States he carried a guitar inscribed with the words, ‘This machine kills Fascists.’ More than any thing else he saw in the world around him, Woody was fascinated by ‘human-being.’ It wasn’t the ‘freight-train’ that...