Prayers from the Darkness as a guide to our

as a guide to our own prayers

In our spiritual lives

The essays of this book are the papers delivered at that meeting which evoked a perspective at once personal and yet global in a new way

Phoebe Griswold

or with families around the supper table

Prayers from the Darkness as a guide to ourThe "difficult psalms" which amount to more than a third of the Psalter, shock us with their cries of pain, anger, and alienation. They call on God for revenge on their enemies and mercy for themselves. Lyn Fraser, following the lead of Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann, shows how to integrate these "psalms of disorientation" in Sunday morning worship, pastoral care, and any situation of extreme need.