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I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
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I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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