Permission to Speak Freely

Full review at http://bookwi.se/permission-to-speak-freely-essays-and-art-on-fear-confession-and-grace-by-anne-jackson/

Short review: I am not sure how to write a short review. My blog post was over 900 words. Anne Jackson uses her own autobiography to talk about some of the messy things in life that much of the church does not like to talk about (depression, addition, porn, sex, abuse at the hands of others). She does this with only as much detail as she needs to show the healing that can come about when the church embraces the hurting. The concept of “the gift of being second” is important to the book. When you go first and create a safe place for confession or healing, it is much easier for others to go second and find their own healing. This is what the church should be about. This is a story book more than a self help book. There are not steps to healing or ways to forgive. Instead it tells stories to show the potential for healing.