BOOKLIST: PURPLE STATE OF MIND NAMED ONE OF THE TOP TEN RELIGION DVD’S OF THE LAST YEAR
by John Marks

(from John’s blog on the Purple State of Mind website)

We just got word. In its November issue, Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association, names Purple State Of Mind one of the top ten religion DVD’s of the year. This is a big deal for us, our first recognition at the national level by a nationally recognized publication.

One remarkable thing about the Purple State experiment has always been its capacity to adapt. Born as a movie, it has moved through the viscous viral underground like H1N1. Okay, maybe that’s an overstatement, but every week, a few more DVD’s sell, a few hundred more people visit the website, one more cultural tastemaker discovers the movie or one of the books.

We don’t want to jump to conclusions here, but the success of the project may also have something to do with exhaustion. More and more people seem to want to climb out of American Thunderdome, where ideologies face each other off like neanderthal futuristic Mohawks in a battle to incoherent death.

Big thanks to the American Library Association for singling us out!