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When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Groups Missing People
The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don’t know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I’ve been in danger of losing.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Community Losing Pieces
When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, ‘Here, I guess, since this is where I am.’
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Feet Looks Want
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
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
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Doors Keys Locks
Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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Kindness Names Use
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Metaphorical Science Scientific
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
I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Ideas Jobs Thinking
I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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Leaving Littles Successful
To be fully human is perhaps why I’m Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Christian Jesus Way
It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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Conflict Difficult Tagged
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
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Practice Thinking World
Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
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Hard Recognizing Thinking Times
Most of us like thinking we are God’s only children…At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Baptism Children Thinking
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

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