PERMISSION TO SPEAK FREELY

PERMISSION TO SPEAK FREELY follows a successful blog that brought the author worldwide attention when she encouraged her readers to create essays, poetry, and artwork expressing their secrets and fears. Jackson's own confessional reminisces about events and secrets of her life. Her youthful voice questions with passion and engages listeners. She shares her story in a conversational tone, breezing through the stark realities of growing up as a preacher’s kid, being exposed to “church people,” and fearing “faith-destroying" church politics. She candidly paints the effects of these on family and recounts the eventual stripping away of her faith in God. With a journalist’s objectivity she welcomes others to these confessions. E.O. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2011]