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Learning to Walk in the Dark (urspr publ 2014; utgåvan 2014)

av Barbara Brown Taylor (Författare)

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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.… (mer)
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Titel:Learning to Walk in the Dark
Författare:Barbara Brown Taylor (Författare)
Info:HarperOne (2014), Edition: 1st, 208 pages
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Most of the book is self-reflection of the author’s relationship with God and the dark, both physical darkness and spiritual. One interesting part was her experience in a wild cave (as supposed to a show cave). She detailed the clothing necessary and described the darkness well. The summary to me sounds as if she believes in God, but not in organized religion ways. ( )
  bereanna | Jul 19, 2023 |
Learning to Walk in the Dark is the the third of a trilogy of memoirs of Taylor's transition from ordained ministry. And it was so good. In fact, I immediately bought a copy for my mom to surprise her soon after finishing it.

The book was different than I expected in that I thought it would be a thorough exploration of "dark" or mystical theology and learning how to accept the mystery and "darkness" of God. That was part of it, but she looks at darkness much more broadly. She has chapters on:
- the "dark" emotions, such as sadness and anger.
- being blind and the gift therein
- traversing caves and their importance in many religions
- "the dark night of the soul" and feeling the absence of God.
- the impact of the lightbulb and its affects on sleep and consciousness.

She does have a chapter on mysticism, or connecting to God darkly. And despite being fully on-board with her theology, to me it felt rushed. Folks a bit more conservative might feel pushed too quickly.

That said, her truths were powerful. For years, I have been genuinely scared of the dark. I don't know if it's living in cities that never go dark or what, but anytime I'm in real darkness, I get scared. I even love going camping but will avoid darkness with intensity. When alone, I stay in my tent whenever it's dark. One point she made I won't forget, which is darkness is not inherently dangerous. Our fear of it is usually much worse than the darkness itself. And resting in that fear makes us more courageous.

In short, I will never think or be in the dark in the same way. In fact, I plan on seeking darkness and dwelling in that perceived danger more, to grow in courage. This was a beautiful, challenging reflection that I wish the church would read. If I could implement half of what she suggests, I'd be a deeper, more thoughtful person.

I definitely plan on reading her others, and will likely get to this one again! Highly recommended! ( )
1 rösta nrt43 | Dec 29, 2020 |
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. ( )
  ajlewis2 | Jul 11, 2018 |
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 in light? What have we lost by language that demonizes darkness and technology that keeps us in light all our waking hours and more?

This book reads like a shared journal. She is not trying to be “all cleaned up;” she shares her sometimes intent and sometimes ambling study of darkness.

Taylor writes, “’darkness’ is shorthand for anything that scares me – that I want no part of – either because I am sure that I do not have the resources to survive it or because I do not want to find out.”

By studying darkness from various aspects, she opens up concepts that exist there. In darkness, there are different skills, insights, and ways of being than in the light. She explores caves, blindness, moon phases, natural night darkness, dark emotions, “the dark night of the soul,” and religious icons of darkness.

She understands darkness and light as coming from the same Source, and questions the tendency to separate them, categorizing one as good and the other as bad. Though darkness is her journey in this book, it is a similar journey into silence and absence. Why are we so afraid to stay with these still and alone places until they are through with us? Why do we have so little tolerance for the discomfort of our dark emotions that we cannot stay long enough to learn what they have to offer us? Why must we cover silence with noise, absence with presence, stillness with activity, and darkness with light?

“The energy required to keep darkness at bay was fast becoming more than I could manage. Perhaps there was another way? So here at the end, I think this may be a book about living with loss…especially difficult in a culture that words so hard to look the other way.” Taylor gives Pema Chodron credit for this description: “The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. The suffering comes from our reluctance to learn to walk in the dark.”

"When God is Silent" is more elegantly written (more like a sermon than a journal). "Learning to Walk in the Dark" seeks to raise our curiosity and prompt our own journey. "An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith" is about practices. They are all three meaningful to me. ( )
  lgaikwad | May 12, 2015 |
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 always between you and God." A chapter on the intrusion of light into our culture and environment focuses on now too much light affects our lives and what she calls "solar spirituality."

Moving from the physical darkness of night, she explores the world of the blind and undergoes a physical experience of blindness. Losing eyesight causes one to strengthen the other senses of sound and scent. How much of the world are we missing due to too much seeing and not enough listening.

And what seemed at first to be the most unusual chapter "Entering the Stone," Taylor uses caves metaphorically and literally experiencing what to me feels light a frightening experience in a cave. I admit, I was puzzled and thought the entire experience seemed a gratuitous and somewhat weird; however, moving from the cave to the dark night of the soul is some of the best explanation of faith I have ever read.

This is a challenging book and one that will provide much to think about. This is the first book I've read by Taylor, but I immediately sought out more. Taylor's writing are those to be read and re-read. ( )
  maryreinert | Jul 27, 2014 |
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There is a tendency for us to flee from the wild silence and the wild dark, to pack up our gods and hunker down behind city walls, to turn the gods into idols, to kowtow before them and approach their precincts only in the official robes of office. And when we are in the temples, then who will hear the voice crying in the wilderness? Who will hear the reed shaken by the wind.
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It is late August. I am lying in my yard on a blow-up mattress waiting for Friday to become Friday night, which is how I know people are wrong when they say, "It's as clear as the difference between night and day."
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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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