There was not one drop of tears that I would have been willing to give up. There was not one story in the memoir that I would have wanted to miss. There was not word that I would have wanted her to leave out. Taylor has not changed but apparently I have. The following is an excerpt from the full review by Fred Plumer:Ī couple of weeks ago I picked up the book on a rainy weekend and read the entire book from beginning to the end. “Narrative is not a choice I make when it comes time to tell the truth it is the way that truth comes to me–not in crisp propositions but in messy tales of encounters between people and people, between people and creation, between people and the Divine.” “When it is my turn to talk, I generally skip the points and get right to the plot,” she wrote recently. In Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, Georgia Author of the Year Barbara Brown Taylor tells the story of her decision to leave full time parish ministry after fifteen years, trading her church for a college classroom and her Sunday vestments for plain clothes covered in chalk dust.
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