Barbara Brown Taylor

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Religion & Spirituality, Outdoors & Nature, Health, Mind & Body

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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 Lectu...more

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Books by Barbara Brown Taylor

Average rating: 4.21 · 2,687 ratings · 404 reviews · 39 distinct works

	Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith 4.10 avg rating — 964 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith 4.27 avg rating — 920 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Preaching Life 4.34 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	When God Is Silent 4.43 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Speaking of Sin 4.09 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Home by Another Way 4.35 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Bread of Angels 4.19 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion 4.10 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Gospel Medicine 4.23 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew 4.07 avg rating — 44 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

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“People encounter God under shady oak trees, on riverbanks, at the tops of mountains, and in long stretches of barren wilderness. God shows up in whirlwinds, starry skies, burning bushes, and perfect strangers. When people want to know more about God, the son of God tells them to pay attention to the lilies of the field and the birds of the air, to women kneading bread and workers lining up for their pay. Whoever wrote this stuff believed that people could learn as much about the ways of God from paying attention to the world as they could from paying attention to scripture. What is true is what happens, even if what happens is not always right. People can learn as much about the ways of God from business deals gone bad or sparrows falling to the ground as they can from reciting the books of the Bible in order. They can learn as much from a love affair or a wildflower as they can from knowing the Ten Commandments by heart.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

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“To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to complicate things by calling them holy. And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly, the way dripping water changes stone. In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

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