Cowley Publications
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978-1-56101-142-1 • Paperback • January 1997 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
978-1-56101-327-2 • eBook • January 1997 • $15.99 • (£11.99)
Barbara Brown Taylor is an Episcopal priest. She holds the Harry R. Butman Chair in Religion and Philosophy at Piedmont College in northeastern Georgia and serves as adjunct professor of Christian spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur. Recognized as one of the twelve most effective preachers in the English language by Baylor University in 1995, Taylor has published numerous collections of her sermons and theological reflections, including Mixed Blessings, The Preaching Life, The Luminous Web, Home By Another Way, Speaking of Sin, and Gospel Medicine.
Not many collections of sermons are published anymore, but Barbara Brown Taylor's volumes appear with some regularity—and that's a very good thing for the rest of us. Her sermons are simple in theme but elegant in expression.
— The Christian Century
She meets serious biblical scholarship with respect, but she avails us of it in an unobtrusive way that disarms any resistance we may have to being taught from the pulpit. Her exegesis is woven into the context of what she is saying so skillfully that it is likely to be welcomed as helpful even by those who might otherwise complain that the Bible is not really meaningful to them or that scripture is no longer authoritative in the contemporary age.
— Sewanee Theological Review
Taylor finds bright and crisp ways of telling us to look for the unconventional revelations of God in this world. She is intellectual and thoughtful enough for serious reading, and contemporary and informal enough to cause those who do not read sermons to make an exception.
— The Living Church
Her velvet touch conceals her iron grip on the deeper truths of the Gospel.
— The Toronto Anglican
Taylor does not use words or images pretentiously or unnecessarily but forcefully and economically. Every now and again, one is handed a phrase which prods one's heart and mind simultaneously, stimulating a devotional response with a prying theological edge.
— The Anglican Theological Review