Brother Daniel Horan joined TCND to discuss his new book, Dating God: Live and Love in the Way of St. Francis.
The experience of dating provides us with a helpful image to explore Christian spirituality with a fresh lens. Replete with emotional ups and downs, euphoric highs and depressing lows, energy, affection, and fear, our everyday experiences of getting to know another in an increasingly more intimate manner might help us to envision our relationship with God in a new and ever-deepening way.
The journey to God, says Br. Dan, is a lot like dating. You have to get to know God in the same way and in a similar process as you would with someone you date, when you want to explore another person’s truest self.
Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., a Franciscan friar of Holy Name Province, has taught in the department of religious studies at Siena College near Albany, New York. He currently serves on the board of directors of the International Thomas Merton Society and has published more than thirty articles and book chapters. His article in Spiritual Life, “Digital Natives and Franciscan Spirituality,”earned a first-place 2011 award from the Catholic Press Association. He writes regularly at the blog DatingGod.org. Check out his book online and you can see a collection of all our show guests here!
