Pam is Talking Joy with Charlotte Donlon, author of The Great Belonging.

Pam talks with Charlotte Donlon, author of The Great Belonging--How Loneliness leads us to each other. What if loneliness is a necessary part of the human condition? What if it is the current that leads us deeper into belonging--to ourselves, to each other, and to God? During our talk, Charlotte helps us reframe loneliness and offers a language for the quiet within.

—The Talking Joy Podcast Interview with host Pam Rotelle Robertson


ABOUT CHARLOTTE DONLON

 She is an author, spiritual director, and podcast host. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University where she studied creative nonfiction with Paula Huston and Lauren Winner. Her work has appeared in The Washington PostChristianity Today, Catapult, The MillionsMockingbirdChrist and Pop Culture, and elsewhere. Her first book, The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other, will be published by Broadleaf Books in November 2020. 

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THE GREAT BELONGING:
How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other 

From the back of the book:

What if loneliness is a necessary part of the human condition? What if it is a current that leads us deeper into belonging--to ourselves, to each other, and to God?

In The Great Belonging, writer and spiritual director Charlotte Donlon reframes loneliness and offers us a language for the disquiet within. Instead of turning away from the waters of loneliness for fear they will engulf us, she invites us to wade in and see what we find there. In vulnerable, thoughtful prose, Donlon helps us understand our own occasional or frequent loneliness and offers touchpoints for understanding alienation.

 To purchase the book in advance of the November 10th release date, Click here!

Pam Rotelle Robertson