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I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
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Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
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I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
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There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.
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Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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