Pre-Owned Leaving Church : A Memoir of Faith (Hardcover) 9780060771744

from skokie

Ordained minister in the Episcopal Church, the author takes you through her spiritual journey which includes resigning from the ministry after 20 years. The author uses experiences, honesty, and a warm heart to give you a picture of why she made the hardest decision of her life. She left the offi...

from homeschoolmimzi

Barbara Brown Taylor is a woman who was ordained as an Episcopal Minister and then became burned out and ultimately left her pastorate to become a professor. Her writing is elegant, honest and flows naturally. I enjoyed reading her thoughts and impressions and am grateful to have gained an unders...

from cbradley

At first Barbra Brown Taylor's book Leaving Church seems like a memoir of where she lost her conviction to be in ministry. The book recounts her early days of discovering God outside of the church, her first exposures to church, her entry into seminary, and her eventual call to the Episcopal Chur...

from TimBazzett

I read a lot of memoirs these days. In fact they are probably my favorite literary genre. Maybe I should have been warned by Taylor's subtitle - not simply "a memoir," but "a memoir of faith." Because this is not a memoir in the usual sense. There is precious little of Taylor's childhood, youth o...

from robinamelia

While to a certain extent, Ms. Taylor's failures are more successful than any of my achievements, she still conveys her sense of desperation as she sought to be a spiritual leader while still taking care of her own spiritual needs. God must definitely still love her, since she fell into a nice co...