How do we survive when, although our souls ache for God, it seems our Beloved has walked out on us? When God Walks Away: A Dark Night Companion explores and celebrates one of faith's great mysteries: the dark night of the soul. Christ's passion serves as a model for the journey as we accompany Him through surrender, into agonized suffering, to death and into the wonder of new life. Each section introduces a metaphor for the night, and then plumbs the metaphor with examples from personal experience; literature (readers will struggle with Parzival through a hopeless winter, accompany Polly and...

Somebody's watching. As Stephen and Mary begin college in different parts of Texas, each is being watched. The surveillance culminates in an overdue revelation, a terrifying drama enacted on a private stage, and Clown stories relayed by a surprising messenger.