The Spiritual Value of Failure

Here's an article of mine just published on beliefnet.com. It appears in Jana Riess's blog called "Flunking Sainthood: On the Fun of Spiritual Failure," and it explores how the deepest darkness sometimes gets us closest to the light: http://blog.beliefnet.com/flunkingsainthood/2010/12/saved-by-depression-guest-blogger-eric-wilson-on-how-darkness-saved-his-soul.html.