Learning to Walk in the Dark - Hardcover

Taylor, Barbara Brown

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062024353 ISBN 13: 9780062024350

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2014

Synopsis

New York Times Bestseller

From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor's Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don't have all the answers.

Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all that is good with lightness and all that is evil and dangerous with darkness. Doesn't God work in the nighttime as well? In Learning to Walk in the Dark, Taylor asks us to put aside our fears and anxieties and to explore all that God has to teach us "in the dark." She argues that we need to move away from our "solar spirituality" and ease our way into appreciating "lunar spirituality" (since, like the moon, our experience of the light waxes and wanes). Through darkness we find courage, we understand the world in new ways, and we feel God's presence around us, guiding us through things seen and unseen. Often, it is while we are in the dark that we grow the most.

With her characteristic charm and literary wisdom, Taylor is our guide through a spirituality of the nighttime, teaching us how to find our footing in times of uncertainty and giving us strength and hope to face all of life's challenging moments.

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Review

"Taylor seems simply incapable of writing a bad book. . . . A wonderfully gifted Christian writer and speaker."--"Kansas City Star"

"Barbara Brown Taylor is one of our most important spiritual writers today."--"ExploreFaith"

"In this season of national want, Barbara Brown Taylor serves up beefy soul food."--"Atlanta Journal-Constitution"

"Taylor's spiritual reflections are original, bringing fresh air to her topics because her spirituality is steeped in everyday life while illuminated by the ancient Christian spiritual tradition."--"National Catholic Reporter"

"Barbara Brown Taylor is a favorite among church members who struggle to connect the sacred and secular, the heavenly and the earthly. These readers appreciate the candor with which she writes about it."--"Raleigh News and Observer"

"Barbara Brown Taylor penetrates the religious clutter. She comforts. She revives our spirits."--"The Congregationalist"

"Taylor writes fluently, with an eye and ear for the striking image and memorable phrase. Many readers, especially the vast numbers of the 'unchurched' but 'spiritual, ' will find support and useful counsel."--"Library Journal"

"With calm confidence and hard won humility, Barbara Brown Taylor continues to serve our recovery of a whole faith, a performed faith, a lifesaving and lifegiving faith. With a delightfully deft touch, she replaces a wide array of false dichotomies with true coherencies."--Scott Cairns, author of "Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven-A Pilgrimage"

"In the spirit of the great mystics, Barbara Brown Taylor has looked beyond the walls of the church and found...God. With her always winsome prose... we can confidently place ourselves in her hands; she is the most generous and gracious of spiritual guides."--Tony Jones, author of "The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life" and "The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier"

"To the parish of the seldom, or sorely, or no longer 'churched, ' to the doubting and dumbfounded and blessedly vexed, Barbara Brown Taylor tenders an elegant epistle."--Thomas Lynch, author of "The Undertaking" and "Booking Passage"

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062024353
• ISBN 13: 9780062024350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208