It’s set in the church; it’s called Jesus Revolution; it’s about a spiritual awakening in America. And yet people who have no affiliation to Christianity love this story.

LONG BEACH — David Trotter once wanted to start a revolution, in the process finding an appropriate name for his new ministry, Revolution Church of Long Beach. Trotter and his wife, Laura ...

Like Erwin, he wasn’t familiar with the Jesus Revolution of the late ’60s and ’70s, and only knew the counterculture and its intersection with the established culture from history classes.