Tag Archives: Barbara Brown Taylor
A Way To Pray For Others
When people ask me to pray for them, I say, “I will remember you in my prayers today.” I cannot guarantee to remember to pray for them everyday, and I don’t want to make a false promise. Barbara Brown Taylor … Continue reading →
Love of Strangers
I staffed our Pumpkin Patch Sunday, sitting under a tent and selling pumpkins to folks who stopped by. Proceeds go to support an orphanage in Africa. Perhaps half a dozen came to the patch during my two hour shift. I … Continue reading →
On Moving Slowly
Jesus walked a lot, and not only during the last week of his life. The four gospels are peppered with accounts of him walking into the countryside, walking by the Sea of Galilee, walking in the Temple, and even walking … Continue reading →
Fallen Leaves
A Native American elder I know says that he begins teaching people reverence by steering them over to the nearest tree. Barbara Brown Taylor Sunday afternoon I led an interment service in our memorial garden. Putting ashes in the ground … Continue reading →
Spiritual, Not Religious
One Sunday school class is now reading An Altar In the World by Barbara Brown Taylor. A former parish priest in the Episcopal Church, Taylor teaches at Piedmont College in northeast Georgia. In the introduction to her book, she notes … Continue reading →
Barbara Brown Taylor’s Church
Our vacation included an unplanned trip to Clarkesville, Georgia, where a kind woman at the United Methodist Church gave us directions to Grace-Calvary Episcopal Church. ‘Turn right at Blimpie’s. Go one block and turn left. Go a couple of blocks … Continue reading →
