Learning to Walk in the Dark

Learning to Walk in the Dark

by Barbara Brown Taylor
Learning to Walk in the Dark

Learning to Walk in the Dark

by Barbara Brown Taylor

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062024343
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 03/24/2015
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 51,463
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Barbara Brown Taylor is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller An Altar in the World and Leaving Church, which received an Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association. Taylor is the Butman Professor of Religion at Piedmont College, where she has taught since 1998. She lives on a working farm in rural northeast Georgia with her husband, Ed.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Treasures of Darkness 1

1 Who's Afraid of the Dark? 19

2 The Fear of the Lord 39

3 Hampered by Brilliance 59

4 The Dark Emotions 73

5 The Eyes of the Blind 91

6 Entering the Stone 111

7 The Dark Night of the Soul 133

8 Working with Darkness 149

9 Our Lady of the Underground 165

Epilogue: Blessing the Day 183

Acknowledgments 189

Notes 193

Sources 197

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