Don Lattin’s latest book is Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge (HarperOne, 2007). His work has appeared in dozens of U.S. magazines and newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, where he covered the religion beat for nearly two decades. More info at donlattin.com.

One of the nation’s leading observers of American religion, Don Lattin is the award-winning religion writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. In Following Our Bliss, Lattin shows how the 1960s have had a profound transformative impact in every area of spirituality and interprets the American spiritual and religious landscape with insight, wit, and telling reporting.