This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ← Kandace Burnhams – Searching for Signposts Previous Post Anna Robinson – Human Clay and Divine Breath → So, I still feel pretty Christian in all this that Christianity may be the way that’s open to all other ways if we can learn how to be better theologians and biblical readers about that.” But I’m a biblical scholar, and I don’t find it there when I actually crawl through the text. I think we put spins on the stories about him that make it sound that way. “I do – when I read the New Testament stories about Jesus – see him quite often interacting with religious strangers with no requirement they become other than who they are. “One thing I always ask a community is, ‘What would I have to do to get kicked out of your community?’ And they’ll say, ‘Well, what do you mean?!’ And I say, ‘Well, if there’s nothing I could do to get kicked out, then what does it mean to be in communion with you?’ Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others Interview starts at 18m 16s Image used with permission.

But it’s what Barbara got up to after church leadership that we want to talk about.īarbara spent 20 years teaching world religions, and forming relationships with local leaders from a variety of other faiths, a journey which she describe in her latest book Holy Envy. So we quiz Barbara on what she’s learnt about finding God in the faiths of others.Īfter the interview Nomad hosts David Blower, Jemimah McAlpine and Tim Nash reflect on Barbara’s journey and chat about what the lessons she’s learnt might mean for their own evolving faith. In the early 2000s Barbara left the ministry, an experience she described in Leaving Church, the first of a trilogy of books about redefining her faith. Episcopal priest, professor, theologian and author Barbara Brown Taylor, joins us on Nomad.

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