Barbara Brown Taylor

Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality, ed. Wendy Reed and Jennifer Horne (University of Alabama Press, 2012)

Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South. Essays by Mary Karr, Alice Walker, Barbara Brown Taylor and others.

Selected Works

Memoir

An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith (HarperOne 2009 and HarperAudio 2010)

New York Times Bestseller "This is the most completely beautiful book in religion that I have read in a very long time."

--Phyllis Tickle

Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006)

Georgia Author of the Year "I love this book. Her beautiful, absorbing memoir will bless countless readers, helping us to see God in the church, and out in the world, and in the small interstices in between."

--Lauren Winner

Sermon Preparation

Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008), edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor

Theologos Best Book of the Year 2009 A twelve volume commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary

Nonfiction

Home By Another Way (Cowley, 1999)

“Sermons wonderfully intelligent, moving and direct.”

--Annie Dillard

When God Is Silent (Cowley Publications, 1998)

The 1997 Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale