Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor

Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor

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.

Barbara Brown Taylor is a priest in the Episcopal Church. She is the holder of the Harry R. Butman is an adjunct professor of Christian spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur and holds the Butman Chair in Religion and Philosophy at Piedmont College in northwestern Georgia. Taylor has produced multiple collections of her sermons and theological thoughts, including The Luminous Web, Speaking of Sin, and Gospel Medicine, and was named one of the twelve most successful preachers in the English language by Baylor University in 1995.