Barbara Brown Taylor

Episcopal priest, professor, and New York Times bestselling author. Named one of the most influential clerics in the United States. Known for books that bridge spiritual practice and the ordinary: An Altar in the World, Learning to Walk in the Dark, Holy Envy, and her memoir Leaving Church. Professor of Religion at Piedmont University in Georgia.

Connection

A friend of Peter W. Marty, publisher of The Christian Century.

Why Herbert Would Be Delighted

Barbara Brown Taylor has done for Protestant homiletics and spiritual writing what Herbert's work did for pastoral care: she took serious theology into ordinary life and made it livable. Her voice is one Herbert would recognize as kin.