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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
Beautifully written. Pastors and former pastors can truly relate. Congregants can learn about their pastors as well.
I'm a big fan of this author. I can relate to some of her journey of faith.
I connected with this memoir at a very deep level. My life experiences and that of Taylor are quite different. That did not detract from my ability to identify with many of the feelings and faith developments that she explores in this work. I spent quite a bit of time underlining passages I connected with - and even dogeared two pages, which for this book lover feels a bit sacrilegious.
I identified most deeply with Taylor's journey of faith that moved from faith representing certainty to faith being an openness to questions and a trust in the fact that a magnificent, uncontrollable, and unnameable God contains answers that our human understanding can never fully reach or access. It isn't about a potential afterlife, but the life we live into during out time on earth. This includes a life devoted to recognizing Gods work in the world and appreciating the complexity and beauty of the messy created world.
I identified most deeply with Taylor's journey of faith that moved from faith representing certainty to faith being an openness to questions and a trust in the fact that a magnificent, uncontrollable, and unnameable God contains answers that our human understanding can never fully reach or access. It isn't about a potential afterlife, but the life we live into during out time on earth. This includes a life devoted to recognizing Gods work in the world and appreciating the complexity and beauty of the messy created world.
It was good but nothing revelational. I was hoping for more insight into my own struggle after leaving the church but meh. A nice audiobook to listen to on the drive to work and back but not one I would recommend others.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I have been looking for this one from the library for awhile and finally found it. I think in the time I was searching for the book I forgot a bit of the back story of BBT, but that was probably good. I was expecting something more akin to Rachel Held Evans's Searching for Sunday and in some ways it was similar, but in other ways it was not. Namely how BBT came to ministry vs. RHE and their paths through ministry work. Ultimately with RHE ending up in BBT's denomination of choice. I'm still sorting out my own faith narrative and its women who are finally helping me to shape the story, as well I think they should. Women have a place in religious teaching that has long been surpressed.
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
A remarkable journey of faith, in which a seeker becomes a shepard, then returns to the flock shorn of certainty, and learns a new path, divergent from the first, but roughly parallel:
This is a beautifully-written and intimate book, steeped in wisdom and humility.
As many years as I wanted to wear a clerical collar and as hard as I worked to get one, taking it off turned out to be as necessary for my salvation as putting it on. Being set apart was the only way I could learn how much I longed to be with everyone else. Being in charge was the only way I could learn how much I wanted to be in community.
This is a beautifully-written and intimate book, steeped in wisdom and humility.