Trusting the Sense of Divine Absence

Letting Go Of Our Need to Control Might Be Just What Our Soul Needs Most

In her book Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, Episcopal priest Lauren F. Winner muses on the experience of “God’s absence,” candidly describing a kind of theological anxiety that emerged in her spiritual life — in the midst of a failing marriage, words of judgment from another priest, and wiser words from a friend. When we, who perhaps once had an alm…