Barbara Brown Taylor
Why I envy Orthodox Jews
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 5, 2024
(RNS) — What do you envy in a religious tradition that is not your own?
‘Real Housewife’ Heather Gay pens a juicy ex-Mormon memoir
By Jana Riess — February 8, 2023
(RNS) — Mormonism worked well for ‘Real Housewife’ Heather Gay — until it didn’t. She’s not looking back.
Why a Florida school district banned a book about Shabbat
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 16, 2022
(RNS) — A Florida school district knows the truth about Shabbat. It is subversive.
Learning (again) to walk in the dark
By Jana Riess — April 28, 2020
Last week I was coughing, battling an intermittent but lousy headache, and feeling utterly fatigued. And through it was the nagging question: Was this the Covid-19 virus?
Barbara Brown Taylor: Reformation is a ‘delicious’ wilderness but lonely
By Roxanne Stone — October 18, 2019
DENVER (RNS) — The best-selling author, preacher and professor on finding community in an age of seeking.
Evolving Faith conference offers evangelical ‘refugees’ shelter
By Roxanne Stone — October 7, 2019
DENVER (RNS) — Nearly 2,500 attendees gathered in Denver for two days to seek community in what many called "the wilderness" of deconstruction. Speakers grappled with questions about faith, church, power and justice. Even as they also mourned the death of co-founder, Rachel Held Evans.
Barbara Brown Taylor has holy envy — and it’s changed her Christian life
By Jana Riess — March 12, 2019
(RNS) — When Barbara Brown Taylor began teaching world religions 20 years ago, she expected she would learn more about the subject matter. She didn't expect it would deepen her own Christian faith.
Mormon leader says doubt is dangerous, of Satan
By Jana Riess — June 8, 2017
Elder Montoya's warnings to avoid doubt at all costs ignore one of the most important truths of the process of faith formation: doubt is a catalyst to spiritual growth.
A growing Christian fascination with darkness
By Jonathan Merritt — August 19, 2015
Popular Christian teacher and author Nancy Ortberg joins a cadre of Christians who've set out to explore darkness in recent years.
Why David Brooks is my rabbi
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 5, 2015
David Brooks is not becoming a Christian. He's more likely to become a rabbi.
Spiritual classic “Soul Feast” updated for a new generation
By Jana Riess — January 2, 2015
After 20 years, one of my favorite spirituality books has been refreshed for a new generation of readers. Author Marjorie Thompson explains why.
Barbara Brown Taylor on the devil, death, and the definition of ‘Christian’
By Jonathan Merritt — April 15, 2014
The "New York Times" bestselling author talks openly about personal topics, even sharing how aging affects her and whether she is afraid of dying.
Barbara Brown Taylor tells Christians to embrace darkness
By Jonathan Merritt — April 14, 2014
One of the 12 most effective preachers in the English-speaking world, is on a mission to redeem the darkness. Barbara Brown Taylor says Christians have never had anything to say about darkness, but she plans to change that.
Top 10 religious books I’ve read in the last 10 years
By Jonathan Merritt — July 15, 2013
Jonathan shares the books that have most influenced him. What is on your list?
The life of a free-range preacher: An interview with Barbara Brown Taylor
By Jonathan Merritt — May 28, 2013
One of the most influential living preachers, Barbara Brown Taylor, talks about why she left ministry and why she still hopes.
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