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The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
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I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.
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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.
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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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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.
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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.
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The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
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I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
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It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it's what is most real.
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Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
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Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.
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The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.
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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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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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I've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.
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Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
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