Barbara Brown Taylor
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Brief BioBarbara Brown Taylor teaches religion at Piedmont College in rural northeast Georgia and is an adjunct professor of spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur. She is the author of twelve books, including An Altar in the World, published by HarperOne in February 2009. Her first memoir, Leaving Church, met with widespread critical acclaim, winning a 2006 Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association. A contributing editor to Sojourners, an at-large editor for The Christian Century and sometime commentator on Georgia Public Radio, Taylor lives on a working farm with her husband Ed and a yard full of animals. Books An Altar in the World, HarperOne, 2009 Leaving Church, HarperSanFrancisco, 2006 The Seeds of Heaven, Westminster John Knox, 2004 Speaking of Sin, Cowley, 2000 The Luminous Web, Cowley, 2000 Home By Another Way, Cowley, 1999 When God is Silent, Cowley, 1998 Mixed Blessings, Cowley, 1998 God in Pain, Abingdon, 1998 Bread of Angels, Cowley, 1997 Gospel Medicine, Cowley, 1995 The Preaching Life, Cowley, 1993 Education Yale Divinity School, Master of Divinity, 1976 Emory University, Bachelor of Arts in Religion, 1973 Ordination Deacon, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, 1983 Priest, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, 1984 Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degrees Wake Forest University, 2006 The University of the South, 2005 Hastings University, 2005 Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 2002 Colgate University, 2001 Virginia Theological Seminary, 2001 Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, 1997 Piedmont College, 1995 Memberships and Honors Board of Advisors, Yale Divinity School National Board of Advisors, The Buechner Institute The Authors Guild The Georgia Association of Writers The American Academy of Religion The Society of Biblical Literature Georgia Author of the Year 2006 Who's Who Among America's Teachers 2002, 2004, 2005 The Emory Medal, Emory University, 1998 Yale Divinity School Alumni Award, 1993 Associated Church Press Award of Excellence, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006 Family Born September 21, 1951, to Grace McGahee Brown of College Park, Georgia, and Earl Clement Brown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota (d. 2002). Two sisters, Kathryn Brown Stevens of Fayetteville, Georgia, and Jennifer Brown Moore of Atlanta, who are the mothers of nephews William Wallace Stevens IV and Patrick Conor Moore. Married E. Edward Taylor on November 20, 1982, thereby gaining daughters-by-marriage Kathleen Taylor Jacobs of Dunedin, Florida, and Claire Taylor Mills of Atlanta, mother of granddaughters Madeline and Ava. |
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