In the New York Times bestseller An Altar in the World, acclaimed author Barbara Brown Taylor continues her thoughtful spiritual journey by building upon where she left off in Leaving Church. With the honesty of Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) and the spiritual depth of Anne Lamott (Grace, Eventually), Taylor shares how she learned to find God beyond the church walls in this guide to everyday spirituality, embracing the sacred as a natural part of everyday life. In An Alta...

New York Times BestsellerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all that is good with lightness and all that is evil and dangerous with darkness. Doesn’t God work in the nighttime as well? In Learning to Walk in the Dark, Taylor asks ...

WINNER of the 2021 Thomas Merton Award awarded by The International Thomas Merton SocietyWhat if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun?Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today.In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contempl...

For many Americans, Christian missionary efforts have usually involved distant and exotic places. Sometimes, however, we can learn more about missions and interreligious engagement by looking in our own backyard. This collection of essays deriving from a consultation on missionary history and attitudes in colonial Jamestown, Virginia, explores long-standing assumptions related to Christian mission by listening to Native American voices. What were the ideologies and theologies that motivate...

In her first major work since Holy Envy, one of our most luminous spiritual writers offers an intimate vision of the sacred work of being human, shaped by three decades of living close to the land.“Why do so many religious people look up for comfort instead of down, as if heaven were our only home and not this earth under our feet? Why not both? Who said we had to choose?”For decades, bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor has helped readers redis...

JULIE SPREADBURY taught Children’s Literature at QUT in Brisbane for 40 years. BARBARA BROWN is a much celebrated artist on the Sunshine Coast of Queenland.

New York Times BestsellerIn Holy Envy, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.Barbara Brown Taylor continues her spiritual journey begun in Leaving Church of finding out what the world looks lik...

Vision was writing to encourage the readers that even in times of depressing, being stressed, and loneliness to keep looking toward God who is your future and not to allow your past to dictate your destiny with God.

I like things to be accurate.I adored my husband, and we had a great marriage.After his death, I found a sixty-seven-year-old term paper that turned my world upside down as I learned things were quite different from what I had always believed. I had to find out more!

Hers is a name most known by its initials: BBZ. Hers is a catalog of wisdom that outweighs the most durable bookshelf. Hers is an enthusiasm for denominational understanding that awes the most loyal UCCers:Barbara Brown Zikmund.Barbara Brown Zikmund has impacted the self-image of the United Church of Christ with a lifetime of deep theological and historical work. Her knowledge of who and why we are as the UCC—and her appeal for our continued discernment of God’s ca...

Take 5 minutes and then 5 more. Walk With Me…is an invitation to know God on a deeper level. It's an invitation to be still and hear the Heavenly Father speak words of love and intimacy over you. Amid the chaos and busyness of the day-to-day, author Barb Brown provides a space to come and experience the affection and peace of God. Walk With Me…will enrich your faith journey, refresh your soul and encourage you to listen for the Holy Spirit in your home. Through the breathtaking photography...

"Ancient and Medieval Legacies" overviews Christian movements from the first to the fifteenth centuries AD, highlighting theological and liturgical evolution from the time of the early Christians to the beginnings of the Reformation. Edited by Reinhard Ulrich. Series editor Barbara Brown Zikmund.