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  <name><![CDATA[Barbara Brown Taylor]]></name>
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Barbara Brown Taylor’s first trade book was met with widespread critical acclaim, including the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly and NPR’s Fresh Air. Taylor served All Saints’ Church in downtown Atlanta for nine years as an associate priest before moving to rural north Georgia in 1992 to become rector of Grace-Calvary Episcopal Church in Clarkesville, Georgia. A frequent guest preacher and teacher at churches and universities across the country, she was named one of the twelve most effective preachers in the English-speaking world by Baylor University in 1996 and resigned from her parish soon thereafter to accept an endowed chair in religion at Piedmont College. In 1997 Taylor delivered the distinguished Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale and in 2001 she joined the faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary as adjunct professor of Christian spirituality. An editor-at-large and columnist for The Christian Century, Taylor writes regularly for a number for theological journals. She lives on a working farm in rural Habersham County, Georgia with her husband, Ed. ]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>        
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Altar in the World, An: A Geography of Faith]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Preaching Life]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[When God is Silent (Lyman Beecher Lectures, 1997.)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Home By Another Way]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gospel Medicine]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bread of Angels]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew]]></title>
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  <published>1990</published>  
  
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