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About Leaving Church: A Memoir Of Faith
Product Description “This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail….I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be.” —Frederick Buechner, author of Beyond Words “This is an astonishing book. . . . Taylor is a better writer than LaMott and a better theologian than Norris. In a word, she is the best there is.” — Living Church Barbara Brown Taylor, once hailed as one of America’s most effective and beloved preachers, eloquently tells the moving and delightful story of her search to find an authentic way of being Christian—even when it meant giving up her pulpit. Review “I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be.” -- Frederick Buechner, author of Beyond Words “This memoir [...] is full of surprises[...] In her renewal is our own.” -- Peter J. Gomes, Harvard University “Taylor describes doubt, faith and vocation, their limits, and how the church both blesses and muddies the waters.” -- Nora Gallagher, author of Practicing Resurrection “A fiercely honest and gracious book about our primary vocation to be human.” -- Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and author of Reimagining Christianity “ Leaving Church is a canticle of praise to creator and creation.” -- Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking and Booking Passage “A finely crafted memoir . . . a rich evocation of her lifelong love affair with God.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Told with insight, humor and compassion.” -- The Columbus Post Dispatch “A beautifully crafted memoir . . . . There is a refreshing honesty . . . a slice of courage in a world that too often refuses to admit its vulnerability. . . . Leaving Church does not bash the church. It is a love story about letting go and learning to live with the mystery of what may happen next.” -- San Diego Tribune “...Taylor at her best, writing about congregational moments with such artistic grace and wit that we see them afresh” -- Christian Century “Even without the collar, Barbara Brown Taylor is one of our most important spiritual writers today.” -- ExploreFaith “I love this book . . . . Her beautiful, absorbing memoir will bless countless readers...” -- Lauren Winner, The Dallas Morning News “Such is the power of Brown Taylor’s prose...and her humanity that this story becomes one of hope.” -- Columbus Dispatch “An Episcopal priest renowned for her eloquent sermons turns her talents to memoir...” -- Atlanta Journal Constitution “Lovely . . . revealing . . . poignant. . . . I found in Taylor’s narrative a companionable voice...” -- Garret Keizer in Books & Culture “A wonderfully gifted Christian writer and speaker.” -- Kansas City Star “This new memoir is among the summer’s best books...” -- Detroit Free Press “Taylor is a better writer than LaMott and a better theologian than Norris. ...she is the best there is.” -- Living Church From the Back Cover By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments in which I was ordained. Today those vestments are hanging in the sacristy of an Anglican church in Kenya, my church pension is frozen, and I am as likely to spend Sunday mornings with friendly Quakers, Presbyterians, or Congregationalists as I am with the Episcopalians who remain my closest kin. Some-times I even keep the Sabbath with a cup of steaming Assam tea on my front porch, watching towhees vie for the highest perch in the poplar tree while God watches me. These days I earn my living teaching school, not leading worship, and while I still dream of opening a small restaurant in Clarkesville or volunteering at an eye clinic in Nepal, there is no guarantee that I will not run off with the circus before I am
