Archive for January, 2008

How many people are willing to devote an entire year to combat one of our nation’s greatest enemies? That’s exactly what health crusader Jordan Rubin will do on New Year’s Day when he’ll embark on a year-long, 200 city bus tour of the United States to help Americans shed pounds. Rubin has his bags packed to travel more than 44,000 miles and along the way he’ll sign 100,000 copies of his new Perfect Weight America book (www.perfectweightamerica.com), speak at 250 public events, shake more hands than Mike Huckabee, and even adopt families in serious need of total health makeovers.

Why is the New York Times best selling author opting for life on the road when he could just as easily sit in his comfy West Palm Beach office and leave book sales to his publisher? Rubin says it’s because he’s committed to sharing a message of health that Americans need to hear – and to let people know that they are killing themselves with their knives and forks at staggering rates.
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“In many homes, the average diet of processed convenience foods has resulted in fat parents, fat kids, and a fat family dog who has feasted on too many leftovers,” said Rubin. “What I’m concerned with is the millions of Americans who genuinely want to lose weight but are discouraged from failing on so many diets. With the Perfect Weight America program, I will show them how they can finally succeed and achieve a ‘perfect weight’ where they can feel and look their best.”

Rubin is no stranger to health journeys. In 1995, he battled Crohn’s and several diseases that puzzled more than 70 doctors and specialists on three continents. When his strapping six foot frame wilted to a skeletal 104 pounds, Rubin began a diet of healthy “living foods” rich in vitamins, enzymes, and probiotics. Consuming a whole foods diet similar to what his ancestors ate in Biblical times, Rubin reclaimed control over his health and vowed to devoted the rest of his life to transforming the health of others one life at a time.

Rubin became well known to millions in 2004 when he wrote the New York Times and USA Today best-seller The Maker’s Diet. But Perfect Weight America (Siloam Press), which hits bookstores January 2, is his most ambitious work to date because it encourages readers to “Change Your Diet, Change Your Life, Change Your World.”

Traveling in a 45 foot red, white, and blue Perfect Weight America bus outfitted with bold graphics, Jordan will be recognizable to many fans who are already buying tickets and making plans to hear him speak in cities such as San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Kansas City, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Tulsa, Boston, and Baltimore. They’ll greet him at bookstores, health food stores, gyms, organic farms, hotels, churches, and town halls to hear about how “globesity” will lead to chronic diseases and to 75 percent of adults being classified as overweight by 2015. Sick, worried, and discouraged by their failing health in many cases, the crowds are banking on Rubin to show them a better way.

GodTube.com, the website which set the record as the #1 fastest growing website in the U.S. according to ComScore during its first official launch month, today brought the Bible into the digital age with the launch of the first Virtual Video Bible and the world’s first Virtual Video Prayer Wall, offering the 2.1 billion Christians around the world a whole new way to experience their faith this Christmas season.

Coined “Bible 2.0”, the world’s first online interactive Virtual Video Bible provides an interactive way to experience the Bible through videos, photos and real life experiences uploaded by millions. The Virtual Video Bible offers the entire text of the Bible – from Genesis to Revelation – brought to life by accompanying videos for every chapter. Line by line, the Bible comes to life using GodTube.com’s 800,000 hours of video, which range from music videos to comedy to sermons and to a wide array of user-generated content. When a user scrolls over a verse or passage in the Virtual Video Bible, videos, pictures and comments related to that specific scripture appear on-screen. With more than 10 million people logging onto GodTube.com, the Virtual Video Bible offers the world’s largest Bible experience.
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Also in time for Christmas, GodTube.com is launching the world’s first Virtual Video Prayer Wall which will enable people around the world - from China to Afghanistan to Arkansas - to join together virtually and pray for those in need, from U.S. soldiers far from home to children in hospitals to families who have lost their homes in the recent wildfires and floods.

Patterned after the popular Christian practice of prayer chains and vigils that involve millions of people, GodTube.com takes the prayer wall high-tech. The revolutionary Virtual Video Prayer Wall allows users to post a prayer request on GodTube.com where it could be seen by millions and answered. The Virtual Video Prayer Wall enables people to post prayer requests through a video prayer blog and add home videos and pictures for those in need of prayer. Individuals can respond to prayers posted on the prayer wall by entering text, uploading pictures and even uploading video responses.

“It’s the largest Bible experience on Earth. You can watch the Bible as told through the experience of millions,” explains Chris Wyatt, GodTube.com CEO. “The Prayer Wall itself is an answer to prayer, for those in need of prayer. It’s hope and inspiration for the Christmas season and year round. There are millions of people waiting to pray for you at GodTube.com.”

GodTube.com has become an instant success, experiencing explosive growth drawing millions of unique visitors each month. GodTube.com broadcasts more Christian videos in a single day than all of the Christian television networks do in an entire year. With more than 40,000 videos offering a diverse array of video content, ranging from powerful personal testimonials to humorous youth-oriented videos and sermons, GodTube.com provides thought-provoking and welcoming ways for people to explore their faith online.

Caedmon’s Call’s lyrically compelling song about redemption, “Ten Thousand Angels” will receive a rare and lengthy place on an upcoming episode of the ABC hit drama series “Grey’s Anatomy” on January 10th. Featuring vocals by Derek Webb, the song will play for five consecutive minutes during an emotionally charged final scene.

In order for the song to fit the length of the scene, an extra minute was even edited in, and with lyrics including ‘so lift up your heart now, to this unfolding, all that has been broken will be restored, here runs deep waters for all who are thirsty, love has come, love has come for you’, its use on one of television’s biggest shows is especially uncommon.
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“It’s an honor to be asked to help carry some of the emotional weight of a powerhouse show like Grey’s,” says Webb. “ I think the spiritual significance of a song like “Ten Thousand Angels” will have some really special chemistry with what is bound to be an important episode in the season.”

“Ten Thousand Angels” is a bonus track on the group’s current release, Overdressed, which was in the top 5 (no. 5) of iTunes Editorial list of 2007 for overall “Best Christian Albums”. For three days only, catch a sneak peek listen to “Ten Thousand Angels” at this link: http://www.inorecords.com/caedmonscall/tenthousandangels.mp3.

For the latest information on all things happening with Caedmon’s Call, check out their official website www.caedmonscall.com, www.caedmonscall.net, www.myspace.com/caedmonscall.