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Holy Envy

Barbara Brown Taylor · 2018

A reflective exploration of world religions and interfaith understanding based on the author's nearly twenty years of teaching comparative religion at the college level, examining how encountering diverse faith traditions can deepen one's own spiritual perspective.

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God & Work

What this book knows

Teaching other faiths undoes settled Christian certainty and opens a teacher to God refracted through every tradition she studies.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Primary
Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

She always promised her students that studying other faiths would not make them lose their own. Then she lost hers, or at least the one she started out with.
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My envy of the discipline required by the former increases my desire to put more effort into the latter. What do Muslims know about the power of community that has all but withered from my neglect?
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When I am thirsty, I will dip my cup in the well nearest to hand, while longing to return home to the one I know best.
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We have unwittingly crossed over from observation to participation, and there appears to be no way out.
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Overhearing the answers of the world's great religions can help anyone improve his or her own answers. No one should have to start from scratch with questions like those.
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self-and-identity

I asked God for religious certainty, and God gave me relationships instead. I asked for solid ground, and God gave me human beings instead.
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