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

Barbara Brown Taylor

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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
Anglican Priest
Priest
Drifting
Churches
Poets
Began
Poet
Grew
Jurists
Church
Insistent
Away
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