LIGHT INTO THE WORLD :: REVIEWS
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| "The music is sing-able. The liturgy is moving." |
| Bishop Floyd Schoenhals, Arkansas-Oklahoma Synod ELCA, Tulsa, OK. |
| "The music is both beautiful and fresh." |
| Rev. Jill Ross, ELCA, Wapato, WA. |
| "Light into the World is a beautiful body of music. I've found myself listening to it over and over again." |
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Eric Ebel, USDA Scientist and Musician, Fort Collins, CO. |
| "Lutheran congregations should worship with this service and then-for outreach -- hand out the disk as a take-home devotional. Light Into the World equips Lutherans and other liturgically-based churches to sing the gospel in the tunes and timings of the people." |
| Dr. Gil Waldkoenig, Gettysburg Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, PA. |
| "Kent Gustavson pushes his compositions to the heart of the human experience. Light into the World is simple to sing, yet ripe with musical sensibility. Church music directors or musically-minded parishioners looking for moving, meaningful liturgies owe it to their congregations to make works like Light into the World a part of their church's worshipping experience." |
| Jeshua Erickson, Singer/Songwriter, www.jeshuaerickson.com, Minneapolis, MN. |
"Light into the World has 15 cuts of SUPER Gospel Hymns and excellent musical arrangements. A worship service you need to hear to understand God's POWER!" |
| Ed King, Editor, "The Country Western Corner" Magazine, Santa Fe, TX. |
| "Music that... 'delves into the depths of the liturgical past while looking at the troubled present and the role of the church.'" |
| Myrna J. Sheie, Executive Assistant to the Presiding Bishop of the ELCA, Chicago, IL. |
| "I search for a contemporary idiom in music that is soul music for the people... Then I try to play that music in service to the liturgy. LIGHT INTO THE WORLD has done this beautifully. This effort not only does a fine job of combining rich liturgical tradition with bluegrass music, it also provides a model for working with classical forms of worship in other genres." |
| Tex Sample, Coordinator of the Network for the Study of US Lifestyles, author of White Soul: Country Music, the Church and Working People, Phoenix, AZ. |
| "I really love it. For a while I was home again!" |
| Callista Brown, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN. |
