Reviews

Whoever has reflected on the relationship between scripture and doctrine will appreciate the following dilemma: a searching soul wants answers to existential questions about God, the world, and one’s place in it and opens the Bible in the expectation of finding them there. But where in this rather sprawling collection of disparate books does one even begin?

It is this attention to systems and populations that distinguishes epidemiology from other forms of health-related science. It’s also one of the things I am drawn to as a public health practitioner and is sometimes missing in conversations about health.  

Practicing gratitude gave me hope for the future, helped me rest in God’s presence, and allowed me to live into the fullness of who God has created me to be.

Daphne and Miles’ stories are complicated, yet relatable, and we empathize with them because we all have our own friendships or relationships that come and go, and leave imprints on our lives, for better or worse. 

Through a disarming vulnerability, Dark helps us see the things that are normalized in our culture (peer pressure, power, shame, fear, dehumanization) and reminds us that we aren’t actually supposed to be this way.

I recommend this helpful book for all of us who are not therapists, yet find ourselves searching for ways to have therapeutic moments with students, our family, church members, friends, or ourselves.