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Barbara Brown Taylor · 2006
A memoir by an Episcopal priest reflecting on her twenty-year journey in ordained ministry and her eventual departure from parish life, exploring themes of faith, loss, and spiritual transformation through the lens of her personal experience.
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What this book knows
Leaving ordained ministry taught Taylor that faith is trusting God in uncertainty, not performing certainty for others.
faith-and-doubt
faith that has nothing to do with being sure what I believe and everything to do with trusting God to catch me though I am not sure of anything
LCMF-RC-163the wilderness as the undomesticated encounter with the undomesticated God... pitched by those who were either seeking such an encounter or huddling while they recovered from one
LCMF-RC-165self-and-identity
bobbing in the water with everyone else instead of standing on the cement tossing life preservers... the shame changed to something closer to humility
LCMF-RC-097Looking around the parish hall that night, I was struck hard by all that I was leaving behind.
LCMF-RC-080calling
I had such a strong instinct for rescue that my breasts fairly leaked when I came across those in need of rescuing. Mother Church gave me a way to bring this instinct under God's roof.
LCMF-RC-034once everyone was seated and the first hymn began, it was foretaste-of-heaven time. Our bread was given, not earned.
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