Lonnie frisbee biography of christopher

Editor’s Note:Lonnie Frisbee was born on June 6, Had he lived, he would be 72 on Sunday.

Lonnie Frisbee is a name mostly lost to history, but he could be one of the most influential persons in the modern evangelical ’s no doubt that he is the man who put the “freak” in “Jesus Freak.”And in his life we see some of the best and worst of in the way evangelical leaders dealt with him we see a pattern of cover-up that extends even to today.

But to understand that, a bit of his biography is helpful.

Lonnie Frisbee was a quintessential baby-boomer, born in and fully immersed in the hippie movement of the was in San Francisco during the famous “Summer of Love,” and even then, at age 18, he was a compelling figure, winning awards for his painting and becoming known in the “gay underground” for his dancing and bohemian attitudes and profligate drug described