The Gospel of Loneliness (Wolter)

Learning from Loneliness There’s no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic increased the epidemic of loneliness experienced across households, neighborhoods, and generations. While many rush to solve loneliness, author Dwight Lee Wolter invites us to engage loneliness, to respect it as a spiritual state that can be explored, embraced, utilized, and transformed. The Gospel of Loneliness normalizes loneliness and upends its stigma. Wolter demonstrates how to be curious about our loneliness—revisiting stories of loneliness in fables, listening to loneliness in pop music, studying its dynamic in the pews, and exploring the future of artificial companionship. Taking an eraser to loneliness will not erase it. Trying to drink loneliness away will not quench its thirst. There is good news to be learned in loneliness when we choose to go through it intentionally, rather than avoiding or dismissing it. The Gospel of Loneliness encourages our integration of loneliness into the wholeness of life. Pr