Pilgrim's Progress #2: Pilgrim's Progress is unique, especially to contemporary society. Bunyan wrote it in prison, due to his Non-Conformist conviction that the state's words have no authority over the Word of God. Today we are distracted by a multitude of words: entertainment, news, politics, which supposedly inform, but instead bring fear. God's Word counters with faith, stirs us from complacency, renders us no longer able to be at peace this world's hypocrisies. The form is 350 years old and perhaps strange to us, but it has the ability to cut through our contemporary crap like a knife + reveal Truth. As he wrote in his Introductory Apology: 'This book will make a traveler of thee. If by its counsels thou wilt ruled be: Yea, it will make the slothful active be; The blind also delightful things to see. Then read my fancies: they will stick like burrs, And may be, to the helpless, comforters. This book was writ in such a dialect As may the mind of listless men affect: It seems a novelty. and yet contains Nothing but sound and honest Gospel strains. Oh then come hither, And lay my book, they head, and heart together.' ...Tired of being in this world's rut? then pick it up + read!!!