Barbara Brown Taylor
Books
Brief Bio
Media
Events
Media
An Altar in the World
on Oprah.com
An Altar in the World
#27 on New York Times Bestseller List!
Powell's Books Review-a-Day
Conversation with David Crumm on rediscovering spiritual meaning (www.readthespirit.com)
Wake Up to the Sacred
interview with Becky Garrison (www.theghighcalling.org)
Read the Spirit
interview with David Crumm (www.readthespirit.com)
Tapestry
interview with Mary Hynes (Canadian Public Broadcasting)
David Crumm's
10 Spiritual Sages to Watch in '09
Leaving Church
interview with Becky Garrison (www.theooze.com)
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
Quick Links
Small Group Guides from HarperOne
Study Guides for Leaving Church and An Altar in the World
The Beatitudes Society
Strengthening the progressive Christian network for justice, compassion and peace
The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
The United Religions Initiative
The Center for Progressive Christianity
The Authors Guild