Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession, and Grace
In May 2008, Anne Jackson asked a question onher blog, “What is one thing you feel you can’t say in church?”

Hundreds responded. Everyone had a story.

Permission to Speak Freely is the unique new project and movement of author AnneJackson, who is finished with keeping brokenness in the dark. Bringing to lightthe original intent of God’s sanctuary as a place of help and healing, Annereveals that through confession, both to God and to others, we can live livesthat are whole and healed.

Told with disarming transparency, Anne shareswhat led to her own addictions and the ensuing lifestyle that left her woundedand withdrawn, but ultimately rescued and redeemed. She includes dramaticstories of others who also learned to abandon their fear, pride, and masks; toidentify their hurts; and to find the courage to speak freely.

Their confessions, submitted as mixed mediapieces, photography, and sketches, were collected from people across the world,and are included throughout the book. Readers will share in the opportunity tofind their own path to redemption and freedom.

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Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession, and Grace
In May 2008, Anne Jackson asked a question onher blog, “What is one thing you feel you can’t say in church?”

Hundreds responded. Everyone had a story.

Permission to Speak Freely is the unique new project and movement of author AnneJackson, who is finished with keeping brokenness in the dark. Bringing to lightthe original intent of God’s sanctuary as a place of help and healing, Annereveals that through confession, both to God and to others, we can live livesthat are whole and healed.

Told with disarming transparency, Anne shareswhat led to her own addictions and the ensuing lifestyle that left her woundedand withdrawn, but ultimately rescued and redeemed. She includes dramaticstories of others who also learned to abandon their fear, pride, and masks; toidentify their hurts; and to find the courage to speak freely.

Their confessions, submitted as mixed mediapieces, photography, and sketches, were collected from people across the world,and are included throughout the book. Readers will share in the opportunity tofind their own path to redemption and freedom.

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Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession, and Grace

Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession, and Grace

by Anne Miller
Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession, and Grace

Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession, and Grace

by Anne Miller

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Overview

In May 2008, Anne Jackson asked a question onher blog, “What is one thing you feel you can’t say in church?”

Hundreds responded. Everyone had a story.

Permission to Speak Freely is the unique new project and movement of author AnneJackson, who is finished with keeping brokenness in the dark. Bringing to lightthe original intent of God’s sanctuary as a place of help and healing, Annereveals that through confession, both to God and to others, we can live livesthat are whole and healed.

Told with disarming transparency, Anne shareswhat led to her own addictions and the ensuing lifestyle that left her woundedand withdrawn, but ultimately rescued and redeemed. She includes dramaticstories of others who also learned to abandon their fear, pride, and masks; toidentify their hurts; and to find the courage to speak freely.

Their confessions, submitted as mixed mediapieces, photography, and sketches, were collected from people across the world,and are included throughout the book. Readers will share in the opportunity tofind their own path to redemption and freedom.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780849945991
Publisher: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date: 08/30/2010
Pages: 194
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Anne Marie Miller lives with her husband, Tim Miller in Franklin, Tennessee. Under the name Anne Jackson, she wrote two books: Mad Church Disease and Permission to Speak Freely. Anne speaks at colleges, conventions and churches on the topics of social justice, sexuality, health, addiction, and biblical themes of grace and restoration. She writes for Relevant Magazine, and has been featured in publications such asChristianity Today and Outreach.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii

Part 1 Ghosts in Cathedrals

Tension

1 Meet Fear 3

2 Church Clothes 8

trust is not a four-letter word

3 The First Brick 16

4 The Final Brick 19

5 Losing Faith 23

6 Finding Love (in All the Wrong Places) 27

What's Done Is Done

7 Shattered Pixels 31

8 Ghosts from Churches Past 36

9 Listening 40

10 Following in the Footsteps 44

Lady Trust

11 The Realization 50

12 Let It Be 55

13 Speaking Up and into Freedom 60

Part 2 Finding Sanctuary

Naive

14 Broken 79

15 Sanctuary 82

16 A Conversation in Eden 86

17 A Father's Pursuit 91

18 The Older Brother 97

Found

19 The Voices in Our Heads 102

20 Stupid Cat 107

21 The Valley 110

22 Hope for a Broken Heart 113

23 Whole and Healed 120

Part 3 A Precarious Path to Freedom

The Rescue

24 The Gift of Going Second 147

25 Ezra's Confession 156

26 To New York 160

27 An Unexpected Cab Confessional 167

28 We Get To 171

Amazing Grace

29 Seven Steps 182

Acknowledgments 189

Notes 193

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