Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because Sometimes God Shows Up at Night, (Paperback)

from MrsLee

This was exactly the book I needed at this time. The author has written about her journey through darkness both spiritual and physical. She shares with the reader her discoveries that darkness in itself is not evil. That not being able to see and feel God during dark times of your life is not sin...

from Jim53

Learning to Walk in the Dark emphasizes the error and loss of our constant focus on light as good and darkness as bad. Taylor begins by discussing our unwillingness to live in literal darkness, our preference for keeping our lives well lit. While she doesn't say so directly, she depicts this as a...

from maryreinert

Using physical darkness and all the fears and uncertainties it summons, Taylor leads the reader to explore the darkness of the soul and the darkness of uncertainty. Beginning with an exploration of nighttime darkness, she moves to the "fascinating mystery of God...this darkness and cloud is alway...

from lgaikwad

Barbara Brown Taylor writes of her journey into considering darkness as equally important to life as light. She speaks of discovering endarkenment as the natural complement of enlightenment. She asks why we are so afraid of the dark, why we fear what we will find there. Why do we drown ourselves ...

from ajlewis2

Refreshing openness in her personal theology. I was thrilled to see her quote Thomas Merton's prayer which is the one quote I have had on my mirror for many years. Her experiences were great reading.