The Role of Silence in the Desert

Barbara Brown Taylor recounts her first experience of silence in the Sinai Desert, where the absence of sound and the solitude had a profound impact on her. She reflects on different types of silence and emphasizes that all forms of silence are worthy of exploration, even the ones that terrify or represent injustice. Silence, she suggests, can be a love language and an invitation to listen within ourselves, to discover our own truths and the words that come from inside us.