About Me — Mary Mahoney

31 Years in the Children of God do not Define Me

I grew up during the turbulent years of the 1960s. With wide-eyed wonder I took in the pervasive drug use among the young, the streets filled with angry protesters chanting against the war in Vietnam, and the first Woodstock music festival, a drug-infused, muddy love-in of thousands of hippies. The words of Timothy Leary became the slogan of that lost generation, “Turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

Onto to this stage stepped a disenchanted pastor that knew an opportunity when he saw…