Jenkins thoughtfully discusses these struggles in To Shake the Sleeping Self. However, as Jenkins grew older, he began to face doubts about his faith and how to live it out in the modern world. Jenkins grew up in a setting familiar to many people at Union: a Nashville, TN, Christian-based home. He’s easy to relate to because he wonders about things we all do- who he is and who he will be in the future. Jenkins writes in a genuine, self-aware tone. To Shake the Sleeping Self is the perfect book to get inside someone else’s mind and feelings. Maybe I’m looking for advice, or maybe I just want to know how other people live, and think, and figure things out. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve turned to nonfiction when I want to read something. Now, that book has been released as To Shake the Sleeping Self, and it came to rest on our library bookshelf this October (annoyingly, it arrived at the library before I received my own pre-ordered copy for my personal bookshelf). I enjoyed following his story and got even more excited when his trip ended, and Jenkins began writing in earnest to make a book about his experiences. He talked about what he was learning on his journey- about himself and his preconceptions, and how he was growing. When I read his captions, I realized he was a writer as well, and actually a really good one. cities that he depicted with his photography. He was always taking beautiful landscape photos of places I’d never been I warmed to the creative clothes and cultures of Latin America and the busy importance of U.S. Jedidiah Jenkins was a seemingly random traveler I found on Instagram.

To shake a sleeping self