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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
People often talk about the difference between knowledge and wisdom. This book plugs that gap. It is insightful, bruised, healed, wise. A must-read for anyone who gets within hitting distance of ministry; strongly recommended for anyone who has ever headed into, or out of, a church.
I love Barbara Brown Taylor's books. They speak to me in a way that I haven't felt in a long time. While this is her memoir of her leaving her church to pursue a different vocation, it allowed me to see my own faith walk and my own church experience in a healthy way. I think what I loved most was the realization that she came to that it is okay to not know everything about faith and be okay with that. This gives me such hope. I think that is what I love about Taylor's books...they make me ache for more of God.
I really enjoy reading about other people's journeys. Even if it's very different from my own or I don't agree with every opinion of theirs, I still learn things and find things to admire. I'm okay with not needing to agree on all points.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
I loved this book and the last half hit home really hard. I recommend this to anyone- clergy or not- who is considering leaving church but keeping a similar spirituality.
I listened to this rather than read it and I have to say, the narrator's voice was irritating to me. Otherwise, I enjoyed this meandering memoir and the author's faith story resonated with my own. I appreciated her deep insights into her spiritual life and what it means to live a life of faith in this world.
Barbara Brown Taylor speaks so deeply to me that it is as if she pulls the unique poem of my personal humanity from the depths of me and turns it into plainspoken, understandable prose.
We take responsibility for our own faith. Yet there is a surrender to something bigger. Although it is a paradox, the author brings her reader through both of those gateways. Both are important, it seems, for a healthy spiritual life.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This was a re-read for me. Cannot recommend enough. Taylor is a wordsmith of the highest degree, a truth teller, a salve for the soul. Highly recommend.