Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor

Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor

Framed as a failed love affair with a small church in rural north Georgia, Barbara Brown Taylor's journey from city to country, from full-time ministry to university professor, and urban dweller to part-time farmer is insightful, humorous, and wonderfully human. After ten years in a big urban church, Taylor arrives in Clarkesville, (population 1500). Five-and-a-half years later, "compassion fatigue" strikes, and Taylor realizes that in order to keep her faith she must leave the church, despite feeling that she is betraying the church and losing a part of her identity. Taylor struggles to figure out what faith looks like from the pews instead of the pulpit. Anyone who has experienced doubts about his or her chosen vocation, or those drawn to worship God in community but who have a hard time finding their place in church, will find a kindred spirit in Taylor.

Barbara Brown Taylor is a priest in the Episcopal Church. She is the holder of the Harry R. Butman is an adjunct professor of Christian spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur and holds the Butman Chair in Religion and Philosophy at Piedmont College in northwestern Georgia. Taylor has produced multiple collections of her sermons and theological thoughts, including The Luminous Web, Speaking of Sin, and Gospel Medicine, and was named one of the twelve most successful preachers in the English language by Baylor University in 1995.

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ISBN 13	9780060872632
ISBN 10	0060872632
Title	Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
Author	Barbara Brown Taylor
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2012-05-01
Number of pages	272
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