Hunted: Table of Contents
When I was twenty, when I didn’t know God, I got caught up in the radical activist movement. It was the Vietnam war protest era, but the group I joined had a much broader agenda. The Progressive Labor Party (PL) claimed the mantle of Lenin and Marx. They styled themselves as a vanguard revolutionary party, a party of discipline and ideological rigor, poised to lead the working class in violent upheaval.
I spent five dark years in the Marxist movement. I didn’t know God then, but of course He knew me and was aware of what I was doing. Though I wasn’t a believer, I sensed something was happening behind the scenes that neither I nor my comrades understood. I had the impression someone was watching me. There were times when I was convinced someone intervened to protect me. More often it appeared that some unseen force reached out to thwart my efforts and those of my comrades.
Fifty years later, I know who that someone was. This is the story of how He watched over me, protected me, shielded me from the consequences of my folly, and drew me toward Him. Each episode chronicles a new leg of this dangerous journey and gives a glimpse of God’s providence as He guided me toward Him and away from disaster.
Table of Contents
Episode 1: Hunted: Introduction to a new series
Episode 2: Vanguard
Episode 3: A Win for the Workers
Episode 4: Embarrassing Blemish: An ideological lapse that betrayed the prompting of conscience
Episode 5: Clueless Raymond: You can’t build a communist movement with lawyers’ sons seeking excitement
Episode 6: Unfit for Service: The unasked-for gift of a Vietnam era draft deferment
Episode 7: My First and Only Recruit: One small step on the long march to communism
Episode 8: Candidacy: The personal journey of a would-be middle-class revolutionary
Episode 9: Breakaway: The one day I thought for sure my life was on track
Episode 10: The Revolutionary Friendship That Wasn’t: The stranger who communicated better with my father than I could
Episode 11: Misgivings: When fear and revulsion shook the confidence of a radical activist
Episode 12: Racist Blair’s
Episode 13: Yankees: Communist revolutionaries invade the Old South
Episode 14: The Evils of Capitalism: Preaching communism at a junior college in Georgia
Episode 15: Hellfire: Going native with a Navy vet and his friends in 1970’s Atlanta
Episode 16: A Future Together: Love and jealousy in a summer of radical activism
Episode 17: The Holes in Our Lives: Living together a long way from home
Episode 18: Color Line
Episode 19: Cracker Joe
Episode 20: A Small Price to Pay
Episode 21: The Taking of Life
Episode 22: Two Families
Episode 23: Exotic Locations
Episode 24: Grasping