The Corridors of Strange Darkness

The messages in this book contain words of encouragement for anyone who is struggling with a physical affliction or a wide variety of other life altering challenges. It offers spiritual insight into how to maintain your hope in the midst of fear, disappointment, loss, and growing older. When you read this book, you will be drawn back into some of your own pleasurable childhood experiences. You will also have moments of laughter, and feel the unsettling and sometimes awesome moments of the presence of God. As you continue your journey through the various corridors, you may sense the enabling power of the Holy Spirit gently leading you through your own personal challenges. This book will be a tremendous resource to help reshape or strengthen your walk of faith with God.

""Eugene Neville [is] one of Boston's great pastors: a pioneer in applying technology to learning, a ministering servant beloved by his people, and a treasured colleague deeply respected by all of us privileged to have ministered with him. This insightful record of his dedication to serving God in inner city ministry, despite racial prejudice and the ravages of glaucoma, will inspire all who read it. This is a record of real ministry in action.""
--William David Spencer, author, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Theology and Arts, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston Center for Urban Ministerial Education

""We don't often get an inside look at the personal lives and struggles of pastors and Christian leaders. Neville's humility and vulnerability--as a very successful African-American pastor--provides an intriguing memoir; a ghetto coming-of-age story, a painful narrative of high achievement through barriers of systemic racism, and of survival through attacks from his church family. Even with the threat of blindness, it is a story of hope through suffering, of light in darkness.""
--Dean Borgman, Professor of Youth and Family Ministries and of Social Justice, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

""Simply put, this a deliciously engaging book. Neville carefully weaves a wonderfully rich and well-crafted narrative. His life story helps broaden, deepen, and strengthen our knowledge and understanding of those suffering with glaucoma. [He] lifts you from despair and darkness into a glorious and fulfilled life of hope, courage and grace. The Corridors of Strange Darkness is ultimately an uplifting story.""
--Dr. Leland O. Clarke, Associate Professor of Education and Music, Wheelock College, Senior Pastor, Hope Baptist Church


Rev. Eugene L. Neville is the retired pastor and founder of the Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Inc. in Brockton, Massachusetts. He served with distinction in the Christian ministry for over forty-five years. Rev. Neville graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary where he earned the Master of Divinity degree. He and his wife Ruth are the proud parents of two daughters, Evette and Evonne, and have five grandchildren. Gene and Ruth presently reside in the city of Clermont, Florida.