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  <title><![CDATA[When God is Silent (Lyman Beecher Lectures, 1997.)]]></title>
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  <default_description>In these 1997 Lyman Beecher Lectures in Preaching delivered at Yale Divinity School, the author focuses on the task of those who preach and those who hear sermons in a world where people thirst for a word from God.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shattering - what she has learned from god's silence is not he has forsaken us;<br/>but rather we have forsaken our rules for living among and with each other.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so enlighteninng.  I had a hard time putting it down last night.  I'm reading it for my <br/>Diakonia class.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 3 short chapters, Famine, Silence and Restraint Barbara Brown Taylor points out that despite how much communication there is today we no longer find meaning in what is spoken.  The silence of God does not mean God is dead, but it means God is greater than our language and takes away control of wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32059423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting look at the responsibilities of preachers charged with speaking for a God who seems, more and more, to be silent. This is some of her more intellectual writing, but she manages to maintain a style that is compelling. There are no &quot;answers&quot; here, but rather observations and s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11082794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a slim but powerful text!  Barbara Brown Taylor is amazing!   She spoke at a NACUC event, had most of us in tears -- but good tears!  So raw, so real!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this type of book is usually not my thing. This book was a big exception.  I loved it. I will read it again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very enlightening book on silence and how to preach silence and also how to preach in this noise filled world. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[pt well taken: god *is* silent for us; preachers need to reflect (on/in) that...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A thoughtful book by a skilled preacher. It made great reading for Lent.]]></body>
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