SPIRITUALITY & RELIGION

Learning To Walk in the Dark

by Barbara Brown Taylor
HarperOne: HarperCollins. Apr. 2014. 208p. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9780062024350. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062102867. REL
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Taylor (religion, Piedmont Coll.; An Altar in the World) continues her unconventional, outside-the-pulpit Episcopalian ministry, so successful in her best-selling Altar, by showing readers how she has learned from the darkness: learning to cross the street as if blind; looking for God's nocturnal appearances in the Bible; wondering at the Black Madonna; and contemplating the dark night of the soul.
VERDICT Taylor writes with consistent charm and an unobtrusive faith in God; her work is certain to appeal to some church groups and to fans of Annie Dillard and Anne Lamott.
Reviewed by Graham Christian , Feb 15, 2014
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