Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak about Their Writing and Their Faith Author Chris Martin but Jenkins finds an intriguing

but Jenkins finds an intriguing paradox

She reflects on her upper-middle-class childhood both in the American South and later New England

placing readers in the shoes of individuals on every side of the issue--asylum seekers torn from their families

and ministered together in America and beyond over the last twenty years

inspiring and beautifully written

Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak about Their Writing and Their Faith Author Chris Martin but Jenkins finds an intriguingFlannery O'Connor once wrote that "to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures." Some of the twenty one well known writers included in this book prefer to "shout," as O'Connor did, while others offer what Doris Betts calls "whispering hope." Shouts and Whispers contains a fascinating array of reflections on topics surrounding the often perilous intersection of writing and faith. The authors all agree