When Bob Dylan picked up a silver cross thrown on stage and found
Christianity in the late Seventies, it ended a search that had begun
when his life crashed to a halt in 1966. According to Dylan, the turning
point came one night in late 1978 when he received a "vision and a
feeling." Dylan later said, "Jesus put his hand on me. It was a physical
thing. I felt it. I felt it all over me. I felt my whole body tremble.
The glory of the Lord knocked me down and picked me up." That search
makes sense of his John Wesley Harding album and the following 12 years.