I mentioned in part 1 of my post on UF campus preachers that one of these guys (Bro. Jed) was featured in Rolling Stone on March 27, 1986, in their special campus issue (issue #471 -- Bruce Willis on the cover), which had articles about politics and religion on campus from pp. 75-100. I took the time to go and get the, and you can view all of it here.
The title of the article was "Hell on Campus", and it was written by David Handelman, starting on p.86. At the time, Bro. Jed's group was named "The Destroyers", and this was written when he and his wife had just recently had Evangeline, their first (they now have 5 daughters).
After a trip to the UF Music Library, some time on a microfilm reader, and some time at a copier and scanner, I present to you all six pages of the article as .JPG files. You will want to view these with some program which allows you to zoom in and out with a magnification lens. The text of the pages was tiny, and I did my best to enlarge it, but the microfilm format is quite limited.
I may try to work with these some more, because they are large files (5.2M total), but I've already put in more time on this than I should've. [why am I enamored with campus preachers?] You can visit the index to download them and save each page if you like.
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If you have any trouble downloading, opening or viewing the files, please leave a comment.
The article was both sad and hilarious at the same time. I will comment on it more fully in part 2 of the campus preacher review series, but for now, I will say that it appears that Radical Bill lied about being mentioned in the article -- it was entirely based in California, and Florida was mentioned only for background as to how Jed and Cindy met (which Bill told the truth about).
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