What Difference Do It MakeStories of Hope and Healing

Ron Hall and Denver Moore, with Lynn Vincent          Thomas Nelson, 2009.


 3.0 / 5.0 

This follow-up to 2006's Same Kind of Different As Me is more like three small books intertwined. Ron Hall and Denver Moore continue their story while including vignettes from readers moved to action after reading the first book. The oral contributions from Moore are recorded by Hall--and presumably Lynn Vincent--in a semi-phonetic way to capture his way of speaking. Moore includes various stories from his past before and during his stay at Union Gospel Mission as well some anecdotes from the speaking tour for SKoDAM. The chapters of What Difference Do It Make that most resemble the pair's first book are Hall's.  The story of reconciliation with his father is the only consistent narrative in the book and one wonders if it could not have been expanded into a book of it's own.