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Home By Another Way

By Barbara Brown Taylor
Cowley. 1999. Pb. 212 pp. $ 11.95. ISBN 1-56101-167-3

Reviewed by Elisabeth Lunz

 

When I first met Barbara Brown Taylor more than 20 years ago, she was becoming a writer. We were both at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, where Barbara worked in administration during her postulancy for the Episcopal priesthood.

She spoke admiringly then of Annie Dillard, with whom she corresponded, and described her own growing sense of call to write -- like Dillard -- professionally in a way which explored and illumined meaning in the world.

God was certainly leading her along the right pathway to beautiful preaching. Her newest collection of sermons, Home by Another Way, vividly reveals how the honing of her writer's style contributes to sermons that can...

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