The Last Word Is Love - A Testament of Apology #892735

The Last Word Is Love is a collection of god-wounded confessions and bitter, aching prayers. It is a book for the forsaken, the defiant, the devout, and the broken - for those who have knelt beneath holy hands and left bleeding. In these pages, the Almighty is not a distant, unassailable figure, but a fallible God: a creator capable of cruelty, silence, and grief, who now stands to account for the centuries of blood and sorrow written in His name.

This is a deeply humanising text. Across thirty-two poems, The Last Word Is Love presents a God who confesses. Who admits His mistakes. Who laments His wrath and mourns the things He has broken. Each confession is followed by a prayer - a reply from those He wounded. The drowned, the betrayed, the exiled, the lovers, the mothers who buried their children, the queer and the cast-out. Each voice answers Him not with submission, but with memory, bitterness, tenderness, and longing.

At its heart, this is a book about religious trauma. About how we survive belief. About the terrible things we endure in the name of salvation, and the strange, stubborn light that survives in spite of it. The poems reckon with every flood, every war, every child left weeping in the pews, every atrocity once declared holy. And yet - despite the ash and the graves, there remains a thread of hope.

The text charts the arc of a God who changes, who becomes something gentler and more human over time. The culmination of this evolution is Jesus: not as an untouchable icon, but as a man - a figure of profound empathy, defiance, and tenderness. A living embodiment of everything God had to learn. A quiet, bloodied bridge between divinity and humanity.

In the end, The Last Word Is Love insists that holiness was never meant to be synonymous with perfection. It was meant to be kind. And so this book stands as both an indictment and an offering - a promise that the last word isn't wrath, or justice, or even mercy.

The last word is love.