Barbara Brown Taylor
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BooksLeaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
(HarperSanFrancisco, 2006) "This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail. It is a book about the wonderful mess of being alive in this world, and about the wonderful and terrible things that happen to us in it, and about the dream of God. It is a book whose author states that she has 'learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty,' and because she writes so enchantingly out of her own deep truth, she helps us to get back in touch with ours. I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be. --Frederick Buechner Author of Beyond Words
The Seeds of Heaven (2nd edition)
(Westminster John Knox, 2004) "She compresses language, that is to say, offers slant delineation, presses startling images--all the poet's tools are in her workshop--to help the reader reconsider trusts long assumed." --Thomas R. Steagald Circuit Rider Reviews
The Preaching Life
(Cowley, 1993) “Barbara Brown Taylor tells an engaging story of the birth of her own voice as a preacher, the struggles to bring the gospel to speech, and the joys of being an instrument of God’s will.” --William H. Willimon Home By Another Way
(Cowley, 1999) "Sermons have been thought of as an art form for a very long time, but rarely have they been pure storytelling. Stories have embellished sermons for a variety of reasons and in this way have served to edify, inform, and inspire. Professor/priest Barbara Brown Taylor has elevated the pure story form and given it a new place in the pulpit. And she does it with the skills required of storytellers. ...One would hope that this book will start a revolution in homiletics." --Christianity and the Arts When God Is Silent
(Cowley, 1998) "This book should not be left to preachers alone; it is a handbook for those who hear the whisper of God and want to listen. It is a book about the fragility of our words and the depth of God's silence – and it is ultimately a book about the music that results from the crashing of our words against that silence of God to carry on its very failure some of the song of God's own music." --Bruce Jenneker Cowley
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