Sunday, September 30
8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Services
"The Tenth Leper"
Luke 17:11-19
9:40 a.m. Forum
"The Language of Faith:
A Conversation with
Barbara Brown Taylor"
7:00 p.m. Sanctuary
"Letter to the Exiles"
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7
Special Music By:
Vertrelle Cameron-Mickens
Hayward Mickens |
The 2001 Pace-Warren Lectures
Barbara Brown Taylor
 Barbara
Brown Taylor is an Episcopal Priest in the Diocese of Atlanta. She
holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Emory University and a Master of
Divinity from Yale Divinity School. She has been awarded a Honorary Doctor
of Divinity degree by both Yale Divinity School and Piedmont College.
She was ordained in 1983 and has served as a teacher of preaching at
many universities, including Wake Forest, Yale, Princeton, Duke and Emory.
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"Barbara Brown Taylor's sermons are
clear, concise, scriptural and practical -- she's a preacher's
preacher."
Dr. David Renwick,
Senior Pastor
Second Presbyterian Church |
From Washington, DC to Santa Barbara, California, and Jackson,
Mississippi to New York's Wall Street, Reverend Taylor has delivered
riveting sermons and lectures on preaching. Requests for her appearances
come from other countries as well, and in recent years, she has lectured
and preached in Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland and Kenya. In 1996, she
was named to the Baylor List of The Twelve Most Effective Preachers.
"Barbara Brown Taylor must spend hours
creating her sermons because she crafts wonderfully woven webs in
them; and her listeners find themselves pulled into these webs. Her
audiences do not always grasp fully the profound nature of her
sermons until they think back on them. She makes one feel as if they
are having a conversation with her across the kitchen table."
The Rt, Rev. Stacy Sauls,
Bishop
Episcopal Diocese of Lexington |
She is also no stranger to the broadcast media, as her sermons have
been featured on the radio program, Protestant Hour and recorded for audio
books-on-tape by the Episcopal Media Center. She serves as a guest
commentator for Georgia Public Radio, and in 1997, she was featured on the
Odyssey Channel's Great Preachers Series.
Taylor is the author of ten
books, including When
God is Silent (1998) and Speaking
of Sin; The Lost Language of Salvation (2000). She served urban
and rural parishes in Georgia for fifteen years before assuming her
current post as Butman Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Piedmont
College in Demorest, Georgia.
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"For me, Barbara Brown Taylor has shed
new understandings on both scripture and preaching. One of the most
prolific preachers in America, she has a wonderful gift for bringing
to life age-old stories that impact the modern seeker. There is an
easiness in her writings that allow the reader to be drawn into the
narrative, Once enveloped, the reader is free to explore the
possibilities of the scriptures. I never leave her books empty."
The Very Rev. Morris K. Thompson,
Jr.
Dean and Rector, Christ Church Cathedral |
"Barbara Brown Taylor is fantastic,
energizing and very thought provoking! After listening to one of her
sermons, one leaves with both challenge and fulfillment. Barbara
gives you the wherewithal to go forward to meet this
challenge."
The Rev. Robert Sessum, Rector
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church |
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