Barbara Brown Taylor is the Butman Professor of Religion at Piedmont College in rural northeast Georgia. An Episcopal priest since 1984, she is the author of 12 books, including the New York Times bestseller AN ALTAR IN THE WORLD. Her first memoir, LEAVING CHURCH, met with widespread critical acclaim, winning a 2006 Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association. Taylor and her husband Ed live on a working farm in the foothills of the Appalachians with wild turkeys, red foxes, two old Quarter horses and too many chickens.

Books by Barbara Brown Taylor

Learning to Walk in the Dark

by Barbara Brown Taylor - Christian, Nonfiction, Personal Growth

Barbara Brown 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 us to put aside our fears and anxieties and to explore all that God has to teach us “in the dark.”

Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

by Barbara Brown Taylor - Christian