We are looking forward to the time when Ruth&Stubb will be able to bring you one of the comedies, action thrillers or the romantic comedies that are a part of our "screenplay" library. However, as we move through, it is our interest to bring enlightenment and "light-bulb moments" for all who listen and read the words that we are blessed to bring to you all. God is good and He gives us all a chance to pay attention. But sometimes we just need to be turned in the "right directions". Pants Hanging Down is Stubb's way of saying that he and many others are interested in the "180-degree about-face" that many of us need to make.
Comments about the book , phd - Pants Hanging Down
One of the most profound statements I've ever heard during my years as a criminal justice professional is ," You practice what you value and value what you practice." Meaning, what's in you will come out. Everything you try to hide is "oozing" out the side. Everything you try to contain will not be restrained. Prov. 23:7 states," So a man thinketh, so is he." Moreover, what's in your heart will manifest in your mind and what's in your mind will develop into your behavior and how you act is who you are regardless of what you say and how others perceive you is how you will be treated. phd nails it! This "in-our-face" literary masterpiece personifies the cancerous mentalities plaguing our society today. Many of us degrade the hip-hop culture for showcasing their "nakedness". However, we as the upper echelon, fail to realize our "pants are hanging down", so to speak, in areas more pertinent than clothes. For they can change their clothes quicker than you can change your attitude.
Toni Netters-Rutherford/CSO II/HCCSCD - Probation Officer
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"Pants Hanging Down" (phd) is an excellent book that gets you thinking. It's an introspective work which analyzes and reviews the "causes and effects" of the lack of participation of "the village" in raising the children.
Alphonso Delaney - Boyscout Master
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Gene Stubbson has written the most important book in my opinion in the last twenty years. He is an old man in a young man's body. Stubbson has captured the essence of my generation in a new philosophy that is so needed in our nation as it relates to our youth crisis in America today. How my mind flowed back to what he called a time when thew whole community raised our families. How my heart lit up when this great young author talked about re-establishing family order. To quote this his eloquence, he writes"as the child's parent we need to set the example. We need to be structured as it is in nature and every civilized society whether it be industrialized or still hidden in the tall trees of primitive environments. We need to serve as examples as to what ought and should be done that produces productive members of society." I believe that Stubbson is right when he says that "we as a village have a responsibility to operate within a set of rules", just like wea re taught in our education system. I agree. And I am now forced to ask too, "Where is the village?" Where are the congregations of homes, houses, families and people who lived their lives in small communities? Stubbson gives us the answers. Chapter two of this great book leads us out of the "city mentality" back to the "village", where we can be nourished, nurtured, and protected from ourselves.
Willie Jones, Senior Pastor
New Mount Calvary MBC, Houston, Texas
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Most of us accept the adage that "it takes a village to raise a child." However, when a child makes a big mistake in judgement or conduct, we don't blame the village, we blame the child. Rather than simply focus on the child, this book invites the village to look in the mirror for real answers to the troubles of our children. The village has changed and yet we question why our children have changed. Sorting out the ills of the village is the "true prescription" for healing the village's sick children.
Pants Hanging Down reminds us that introspection, or self-examination, is a far healthier outlook than the "blame game". phd is simply a "must read" for those who prefer the former.
Rep. Harold V. Dutton, Jr.
State Representative - District 142, State of Texas
