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Other Resources on the Dark Night
Other Resources on The Dark Night
and Contemplation
 
As a result of my doctoral studies, Ive written a book (click on the image below right to order your copy) and various essays on the Christian experience of the dark night along with its parallel growth in the gift of contemplation. 

 

 
Essays on the Dark Night Available on the Internet
A scholarly but unpublished essay, Post-Baptismal Transformation in John of the Cross, is available in PDF format.
 
Also available in PDF format is a sermon, Was Mother Teresa a Hypocrite? that was originally preached at the Walnut Hill Mennonite Church, Goshen, Indiana, on March 2, 2008.
 
A short, popularly-written article on the dark night called When You Can't Pray, was printed in early 2008 in The Mennonite. You can read it on their website by clicking here, or you can read the entire issue in PDF format here.
Published Essays on the Dark Night
An essay entitled The Obscure Night of Prayer appeared in Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology in the Fall 2006 issue.
 
In 2009, an article called Suffering in the Dark Night may appear in The Mennonite. Ill post a link to it as soon as it's available. 
 
The essay Blessings of Gods Absence: Youth in the Dark Night will appear in Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled: Tending to Faith Formation in Mennonite Youth, edited by Andy Brubacher Kaethler and Bob Yoder, to be released in the latter half of 2009.