Our Lenten book study is “Learning to Walk in the Dark” by Barbara Brown Taylor. We will hold six sessions on Tuesday evenings at 7:30PM via Zoom starting on February 13th and ending on March 26th. No session will be held on March 12th.

A Zoom link will be sent out when we get closer to the event or can be obtained from Dave Rowell at daverowell52gmail.com. Please read the introduction and Chapter 1 (up to page 38) before the first session.

Taylor explores our preconceptions about darkness—how we tend to view it as negative, and resist or try to power through it as fast as we can. She suggests that we can learn much by putting our resistance aside and being willing to explore the darkness—in ourselves, and in the situations, we encounter in life. Most of all, we can come to understand how God comes to us in the darkness.

The book is available for purchase at a discount at the Book House in Stuyvesant Plaza.

Joanne Castner, a former member of St. Vincent’s who now resides in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will facilitate these sessions. Joanne is a retired counselor with a background in family therapy. She is currently a spiritual director, and an Associate with the Sisters of Mercy. After joining an immersion group in 2022 in El Paso and Mexico, she has conducted many presentations including at St. Vincent’s last April about conditions at our southern border.