Character Quote by Barbara Brown Taylor

“The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.”

Barbara Brown Taylor

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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

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I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets…

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Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn…

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I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of…

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With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when He was…

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There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here…

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The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from…

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“I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them…

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I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

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There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

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The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It…

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