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The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. Barbara Brown Taylor
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The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. Barbara Brown Taylor
You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live. Barbara Brown Taylor
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 people. Barbara Brown Taylor
To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where. Barbara Brown Taylor
Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it. Barbara Brown Taylor
The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don’t know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I’ve been in danger of losing. Barbara Brown Taylor
You probably can’t get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there’s a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing … Read more
If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I’ve just quit being religious, because that’s what got me into such deep trouble. Barbara Brown Taylor
That’s enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation. Barbara Brown Taylor
I’m in a mainline church, I’m very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real efforts not to associate themselves with traditional denominations – very often they have no history. They have no institutional memory. Barbara Brown Taylor