An Altar in the World

  • An Altar in the World: Finding the Sacred Beneath Our Feet
    By Barbara Brown Taylor

    So I stopped the poetry reading earlier than I had planned, but at the break I asked them all to go outside and read at least one poem to a tree. I could not have asked anyone to do something like that when I was thirty years old, ...

  • An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
    By Barbara Brown Taylor

    In the New York Times bestseller An Altar in the World, acclaimed author Barbara Brown Taylor continues her spiritual journey by building upon where she left off in Leaving Church.

  • An Altar in the World: Finding the sacred beneath our feet
    By Barbara Brown Taylor

    I play no apparent part in their genesis. ... Or I can set a little altar, in the world or in my heart. ... more patch of ordinary earth with ladder marks on it—where the divine traffic is heavy when I notice it and even when I do not.

  • An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
    By Barbara Brown Taylor

    In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir"—The Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about her experience leaving full-time ministryto become a professor, a decision that stretched the ...

  • An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
    By Barbara Brown Taylor

    Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World, she shares how she learned to encounter God beyond the walls of any church.