My latest book A Midwinter God: Encountering the Divine in Seasons of Darkness has been reviewed by Jon M. Sweeney at Spirituality & Practice. “No one combines teaching wisdom with spiritual practice quite like Christine Valters Paintner does in her books. This one is designed for anyone who’s grieving a loss and desires to thread that loss through their lives for meaning. The message of A Midwinter God is one of self-compassion and locating meaning in what we usually find inexplicable — suffering and death. Paintner tells of her own grief, illnesses, and losses, and how they have slowly changed her. An early summary