How it All Began: Rob Ekno — actor, producer, TV host, author, speaker, and Founding Director of the Knoxville International Christian Film Festival presents the KICFF award winners, including Bread, the screenplay, which received a perfect score of 10 and was honored as the Gold Medal winner.
Award-Winning Works by David Templeton
Praise for Bread: A Modern Parable, the Book
Templeton’s prose is brisk, clear, comic, and surprising…. an offer of fresh angles on complex ideas with bursts of humor….arresting, unsettling imagery and wholly surprising details. A surprising satiric fable of societies, freedoms, and what we owe each other.
–Booklife
David Templeton’s engrossing Christian novel Bread is a spiritual parable about the transformational power of relationships….set in a divided world in which one life can make a difference.
–Forward Reviews
This Book is Worth Reading! I don’t read often, but this book made me laugh, then made me cry. I loved the author’s use of symbolism and metaphor to create meaning. The ending is my favorite. It is very poignent and endearing.
–DD
Something for everyone. This inspiring book was a joy to read with its jewels of insight into the intimacy of relationships and the benefits of living a God-conscious life. The numerous vignettes supporting the compelling storyline felt like God was speaking directly to me, uplifting my soul.
A great read, surprisingly creative, and with takeaways for everyone.
–PP
Loved this book!!! I love how easy it is to read. It feels wonderful in my hands. The story is amazing. I like how you can relate to current things going on. Be prepared to love these characters and want more… such a well thought-out book. I enjoyed it a lot and cannot wait for more books.
–MA
A friend who knows I love to read gave me a copy of this new book. Bread is nearly indescribable, except that it is more different than any book I’ve read. I found myself glued to the pages, completely engrossed, wondering what was about to happen. It made me think, laugh, and weep. The imagery is definitely surprisingly beautiful. Nothing could have prepared me for the ending. This book left me feeling more hopeful.
–MC
Pleasantly surprised. I normally do not read fiction but was told about this book by a friend. Once I started it, I could not put it down. It was a very easy read and surprisingly extremely interesting.
–CFS
Great read! It’s a fictional book that you realize could very well be real life. Something to be very much aware of as you experience life’s journey. Excellent read. Couldn’t put it down!
–LJ
Bread: A Modern Parable is not about politics, religion, or psychology. It does offer political, theological and psychological messaging, but only to transport the reader to deeper, more valuable truths. Bread infers that harsh, and evil realities of life happen to everyone. In that regard, it explores the role of spiritual power derived from relationships and treats redemption and grace as transformative, minus the heavy handedness of lifeless, religious rule-keeping. The option of who we choose to give ourselves to relationally, spiritually, and politically is prioritized and illustrated in an astonishingly creative and meaningful way. Unlike a fairytale, this story highlights very real truths about the struggles of modern relationships and the role emotional bonding plays in them. A completely surprising and entertaining book.
— DM