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Reviews and Comments
"We live in a culture of noise. There are voices rising in pitch, timbre and degrees of emotion everywhere we turn. We carry on our lives in a dizzying, blisteringly paced time, where the themes surrounding our very existence have become a sonic blur, where reflections on truth are shoved to the margin and regarded simply as more information by the feedback mediated in images, words, sounds, and animations about every topic under the sun. Seeking a quiet place to reflect and question what one actually believes, or even more importantly, to ask the sincere questions that lead to a search for truth, has become an increasingly rare commodity. Our cultural institutions, from religion to politics, from entertainment to finance, discuss often extreme positions on hunger and poverty, love, morality, and war; they dictate loudly opinionated (and often commodity based) notions of creating community, that do little more than become fodder for the battlegrounds that contribute to increased isolationism, alienation, and divisiveness. Institutional religion, as merely another human construct, has certainly contributed its share of noise . In The Words we are presented with a way of hearing, a quiet remix single voice in heart of the feedback zone. These words are here to accept, ignore or reject at will. If they are to be considered, it is not because they have been shouted through a bullhorn or from some lofty platform, or for the dazzle of their verbal presentation; but simply as an introduction, a conversation starter, offered person to person, the most intimate form of communication there is-- one that despite our best efforts as a culture, we’ve been unable to drown out completely. Here is a place outside the din, a place to wallow, to chill or simply rest while encountering something very old and covered over, stripped clean of their usual trappings and presented nakedly for your perusal, consideration, and perhaps even delight."
- THOM JUREK, All Music Guide, senior editor
"The book, The Words, was introduced and immediately I saw it as something we needed, and I considered it a book that had come to us in God`s timing. The Words is a book that transcends religious reading, making Christ’s words living, current, and applicable to this age. Even though a lot of young people here learn English well enough to read, conveying of thoughts of Jesus in our mother language brings them closer to the heart of the truth. These words exist as powerful dismissal of the philosophers such as Voltaire and similar who predicted that the Gospel would fade out in the sequence of future generations. On the contra |