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Seeing the Sacred
EXCERPT No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggest that the...
Sojourners Magazine, 02/01/09 by Taylor, Barbara Brown · More from publication -
Our bodies, our faith
DEEP SUFFERING makes theologians of us all. The questions people ask about God in Sunday school rarely compare with the questions we ask while we...
Christian Century, 01/27/09 by Barbara Brown Taylor · More from publication -
Cell phone sacrament
I DID NOT OWN one for ages. The first reason was personal: driving the car was a kind of Sabbath for me, with nothing to do but listen to music and...
Christian Century, 12/02/08 by Barbara Brown Taylor · More from publication -
Zoned out
IN MID-AUGUST I attended the grand opening of the new Al-Farooq Masjid in midtown Atlanta, a complex that includes gardens, fountains, a school and...
Christian Century, 10/07/08 by Barbara Brown Taylor · More from publication -
Upside of a downturn
LIKE EVERYONE ELSE I know, I am feeling the pinch of a straitened economy. I eat out less often, I drive less far and I write fewer checks to my...
Christian Century, 08/12/08 by Barbara Brown Taylor · More from publication -
Failing Christianity
I TEACH A VARIETY of courses at Piedmont College, but "Introduction to World Religions" is my favorite. I have taught it more than 20 times now, to...
Christian Century, 06/17/08 by Barbara Brown Taylor · More from publication -
When the well runs dry
THERE WERE 15 PEOPLE in my house when the well ran dry. It was Thanksgiving, and everyone knew that they did not have to flush every time. Those...
Christian Century, 02/26/08 by Barbara Brown Taylor · More from publication -
Getting to no: learning to say no is how we clear space for a few fully planted yeses to grow
FEW YEARS AGO I bought a book on leadership called Getting to Yes. I think it was about moving from win-lose situations to win-win situations in...
Christian Century, 09/18/07 by Barbara Brown Taylor · More from publication -
Naming the dead
JEREMY M. LOVELESS. Nathanael J. Doting. Richard A. Bennett. James A. Funkhouser. J. Adan Garcia. According to a recent article in the New York...
Christian Century, 07/24/07 by Barbara Brown Taylor · More from publication -
The poured-out church
THERE IS NOTHING like writing a book called Leaving Church for discovering how many things people can make of a title like that. The church of the...
Christian Century, 05/29/07 by Barbara Brown Taylor · More from publication
