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Title: When God Is Silent: The 1997 Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching (Lyman Beecher Lectures, 1997.) by Barbara B. Taylor ISBN: 1-56101-157-6 Publisher: Cloister Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Powerful
Comment: A powerful collection of three sermons directed at current and future pastors, Taylor discusses the role of a pastor in the church and society. She accurately describes the hot oil feeling of interpreting the Word of God for receptive and unreceptive ears. And she details the awkwardness of that relationship when the pastor feels the well of communication has dried. A must read for anyone who preaches or seeks a conversational relationship with God.
Rating: 5
Summary: How She Broke the Silence!
Comment: Barbara Brown Taylor is one more uniquely creative lady! When she begins Yale's Lyman Beecher Lectures her first words are, "How shall I break the silence?" After two attention grasping questions she paraphrases words from Genesis One, hints of creative silence: "The empty air is formless void waiting to be addressed...and the earth could be all ocean, a blue waterworld in space." Bringing in the first man Adam with several other metaphors, she has already captured every poet's attention! This is the same way she preaches...from Clarksville, to Atlanta, to Boston or to Washington.
...The last Chapter on Restraint is my favorite. There she quotes or refers to, Pascal, Rumi, Auden, Frost, Max Picard and then later tells a Jerry Garcia Story, of the "Grateful Dead" edited by Ken Kesey. Not only is she a Poet but an incredible story teller and knows the best from Robert Schumann to Samuel Barber. These last musical references are based upon "Jesus came among us as word. I believe God remains among us as music." How can you top that variety for sustaining interest of content?
How can anyone ever top her way of breaking silence?
Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood
Rating: 5
Summary: exquisite crafter of words..
Comment: Barbara Brown Taylor is the kind of preacher that those of us who are, would like to be. The book is dedicated to her mentor, Fred Craddock, who is also- like her- a poet first, and then a preacher. Taylor helps her listeners to anticipate, then embrace, God's silence, rather than lament it. She helps us all to understand that silence in such a way that we know we are looking over her shoulder, as she seeks to understand it herself.
As long as God has Taylor, God is not silent..
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Title: The Preaching Life by Barbara Brown Taylor ISBN: 156101074X Publisher: Cowley Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Home by Another Way by Barbara Brown Taylor ISBN: 1561011673 Publisher: Cowley Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation by Barbara Brown Taylor ISBN: 1561011894 Publisher: Cowley Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Bread of Angels by Barbara Brown Taylor ISBN: 1561011428 Publisher: Cowley Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: God in Pain: Teaching Sermons on Suffering (Teaching Sermon Series) by Barbara Brown Taylor, Ronald J. Allen ISBN: 0687058872 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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