When God Is Silent

By: Santiago Pinon Jr

When God is silent, the easy answers get louder--and the wounded get left alone. When God Is Silent is a book for the sleepless rooms: the hospital corridor, the graveside, the kitchen table at 2:00 a.m. Written by a theologian, pastor, and father who held his newborn twins as they died, these pages don't offer a tidy escape from grief. They offer company.

Drawing on the Christian tradition of the Dark Night--especially St. John of the Cross--this book names what many believers fear to admit: that love and absence can coexist, that prayer can go dry, and that faith sometimes means simply staying. With honesty and tenderness, it reimagines the "Dark Night" not as spiritual failure, but as a hard school of love--and as a summons for communities, pastors, and institutions to meet grief with dignity, truth-telling, and sustained care.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149828762X
• ISBN13: 9781498287623
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"