Her last book, Learning to Walk in the Dark, was featured in TIME magazine. Her first memoir, Leaving Church, won a 2006 Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association. Barbara Brown Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author, professor, and Episcopal priest. In this address, Barbara Brown Taylor will explore the dark cloud of God’s presence in the Christian mystical tradition, proposing a spirituality for night time that allows darkness to teach us what we most need to know. This is what we call “the human condition.” Yet many of our inherited teachings glorify the light, leaving us so fearful of the dark and so well defended against it that we stand in grave danger of living only half a life. Redeeming Darkness: A Spirituality for the Night TimesĮvery life has its share of dark and light. Chaplain’s Speaker Series Spring 2015 welcomes Rev. Posted by on Sunday, Main Chaplain's Speaker Series, News. Barbara Brown Taylor to speak for the Chaplain’s Series
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