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Humanity can be pretty stinky.

Barbara Brown Taylor

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Church Ideas People
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Metaphorical Science Scientific
I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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Leaving Littles Successful
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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Home Real Sunday
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
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Everyday Reality Sky
I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
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Sailboat Thinking Turns
When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it’s losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Ideas Losing Lost
The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.
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Effort Heart Sky
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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Jobs Praying Quiet
The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.
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People Sunday Tired
To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
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Church Community Knows
The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.
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Eye Loss Self
I don’t miss the ministry, because I’m completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
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Groups Missing People
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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Self Tradition World
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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Air Body People
I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
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Christian Followers Mean

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