Praying in the Dark: Spirituality, Nonviolence, and the Emerging World
Ebook
Nonviolence for the soul. Nonviolence for the world. The future of democracy. How are we going to find our way through all the polarizations to a new world that works for everyone? Against the backdrop of his Quaker heritage and his own life story, Dan Snyder brings together the four disciplines of theology, depth psychology, strategic nonviolence, and spirituality. The resulting conversation points toward a reimagining of God, self, and world. We can be both incredibly joyful and deeply responsible citizens. We can drink from the deep wells of compassion and mercy. Those wells are fed by hidden springs that are beyond fixed ideologies, beyond belief and doubt, beyond action and inaction, even beyond all of our convictions about religious, moral, or political correctness. We are created by Love, for love. We drink deeply from Love's hidden spring when we learn to pray in the dark.
“From the boundary between contemplation and action, Dan Snyder
shares his wilderness journey into the depths of self and world.
. . . In anguish, uncertainties, and joyful discoveries,
he wrestles with God. Listening to the soul in clients, dreams, and
Scripture, he redefines nonviolence as inner as well as outer
activism. This book reveals how psychotherapy, theology, and prayer
each can open us to divine mystery and love.”
—R. Melvin Keiser, Guilford College, emeritus
“Dan Snyder is a skilled guide to personal and collective
integration, reconciliation, love, and joy. Drawing from an array
of disciplines and from his experiences as a peace activist,
therapist, educator, jazz lover, and Quaker Jesus follower, he
shows us ways to ‘become true’ and whole. This book offers
illumination, healing, and generative wisdom. It is a rich and good
gift, worth reading, rereading, and pondering.”
—Guy Sayles, Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity
“Powerful, clear, poetic, and deeply relevant to our times, this
book is distilled from a lifetime of faithful seeking. Beginning
with a profound adolescent awareness of being fully loved by God,
Dan invites us into the currents of this mystery fed by the
tributaries of Quakerism, theology, nonviolence, biblical studies,
philosophy, depth psychology, and jazz. In the multiple-sourced
writing, he revives and rehabilitates the seriously endangered
words in our day: God, prayer, truth, and Jesus.”
—Mahan Siler, author of Exile or Embrace
“Praying in the Dark is a must-read for all who understand
that nonviolence is the only way forward for our world. Dan Snyder
does a masterful job of joining contemplation to action, calling us
to engage with our deepest selves in order to engage in life-giving
ways with the needs of the world. A longtime explorer of the inner
life, Dan is a trustworthy guide for anyone willing to plumb the
depths of being human in quest of the beloved community.”
—Parker J. Palmer, author of Healing the Heart of
Democracy
- Title: Praying in the Dark: Spirituality, Nonviolence, and the Emerging World
- Author: Daniel O. Snyder
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666724974, 9781666731910, 9781666724967, 1666724971, 1666731919, 1666724963
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666724974
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-30T03:36:33Z
Daniel O. Snyder is a pastoral counselor and spiritual director in Black Mountain, NC.