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Podcast: Author's Corner: Interviews about the Latest Christian Books
Episode: Whispers from the Lord, by Jeff Barker
Description: Today, Roberta talks to Jeff Barker about his new book Whispers from the Lord: A Missionary Nurse's Journal, available from Hendrickson publishers.In 1943, nineteen-year-old Arlene Schuiteman began keeping a journal, which she continued her whole life, including thirty-four years of nursing and teaching in three African countries: South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Zambia.During a particularly trying time, she recorded ninety “whispers from the Lord” in her personal journals. The four years during which Arlene recorded these messages (1975-1979) were among the most difficult years in the history of modern Ethiopia as well as Arlene’s own li...