New Unique Line of Christian Greeting Cards: Strong Words

Strong Words Cards feature candor, eloquence, and wit - and NO sentimentality. They are unlike any other Christian greeting cards you've ever seen. They feature not only strong words, but also arresting, often abstract, images designed to complement the cards' messages and speak movingly, provocatively themselves as well.

Cleveland, TN (Bluehost/PRWEB ) July 16, 2007 -- Strong Words Cards feature candor, eloquence, and wit. They are unlike any other Christian greeting cards you've ever seen. They feature not only strong words, but also arresting, often abstract, images designed to complement the cards' messages and speak movingly, provocatively themselves

Strong Words Cards are one of the dreams of Barb Olson, a college professor of English who loves words for a living. She says she has long been eager to see Christians really "speak the truth" to each other in love just as St. Paul advised in Ephesians 4. "Often, the language of Christian writing and greeting cards in particular can be cliched, saccharine, syrupy sweet. So Strong Words Cards offer a different way, a more honest way, for Christians to communicate with each other."

She continues: "We all know how easy it is to use language so habitually that our message gets lost in a fog of familiarity. That is probably why the psalmists insist we sing a new song. And like new music, new words can help us hear the old, old story in new rhythms and with new resonance. But Christian greeting cards rarely give us new, if you will, strong words."

Olson believes that cliches in the Christian community have slipped into a sentimentality that "blunts the power of the Gospel and obscures its relevance." By using simple texts which are by turns poignant in the impact or funny in their quirkiness, Olson has created a line of Christian greeting cards which seek to equip the saints to "speak the truth in love" j

"Quotations relieve you from being brave enough to say what feels unsayable." Olson says, "That wry observation from Margo Jefferson in the New York Times Book Review explains the appeal of Strong Words. To change the culture of communication in Christian circles does indeed require courage, and these greeting cards seek to enable folks to say what might seem too out of the ordinary, too scary, to speak on their own."

Some of Olson's cards "speak the truth" in new whimsical ways. Olson's motto for the cards is "Sometimes sassy, sometimes serious, always strong." Many draw on the familiar and then infuse it with fresh significance or cast it in a new startling context. Echoes of scripture and old hymns and gospel songs reverberate in quite a few of the greeting card texts. Whatever the approach, Strong Words catch their readers off guard enough to hear the wonder of God's Word anew.                                                        

An enthusiastic customer, Margot Still, of Waltersboro, SC, explains why she likes the cards: "A few well chosen words can cut through the clutter of noise like nothing else. Strong Words speak tothe human situation with focused brevity and beauty. They are that cup of cold water a soul so needs to find."                                        

Strong Words Cards are available in sets of ten in a wide variety of categories: Christmas, birthday, sympathy, wedding, anniversary, get well, thank you, and faith encouragement. Strong Words Cards also come in assortments.

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