1) October 18, 1981 Dane County Coliseum Madison, WI With my wife
2) July 4, 1991 Tanglewood Music Shed Lenox, MA With family and Mother-in-law
3) July 24, 1991 Thames River Pavilion Groton, CT With family and Sister-in-law
4) October 24, 1992 Gamble Pavilion Storrs, CT With Pastor Brad
5) April 19th, 1997 University of Hartford SportsCenter Hartford, CT With Pastor Brad
6) August 3, 2002 Fort Stage Newport, RI With wife and family
7) November 17, 2002 Hartford Civic Center Hartford, CT With my wife Sharon
8) June 21, 2005 Thomas Dodd Stadium Norwich, CT With family

Sean Wilentz says Bob Dylan is still a Christian

Sean Wilentz appeared last night on the Colbert Repor talking about his new book Bob Dylan in America. You can view the interesting interview here:

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Wilentz will quickly tell you that he himself is an atheist, as both he and Christopher Ricks are anxious to point out their atheism in the following discussion: Move the slider quickly in the following link to: 22:45-24:35. Here they both say they are "almost persuaded to become a Christian" by some of Dylan's songs, but they remain atheists....they do have to keep their day jobs in academia after all.

http://philoctetes.org/Past_Programs/The_Inventions_of_Bob_Dylan (22:45-24:35)

So that is what makes Wilentz's testimony to Colbert -- that Dylan was converted to Christianity, and remains, a Christian -- so valuable. He tells Colbert to listen to the songs.....as Dylan himself says...."it is all in the songs."

So here we have a Princeton historian, a very knowledgable expert on the subject of Bob Dylan because he just completed a full length book on the subject, answering once and for all the question... "Is Bob Dylan still a Christian?"

With with testimony of these expert witnesses....I rest my case.

Great Cover by Chrisse Hynde: Property of Jesus