This was the plot complication she faced in her story: What do you do when you’re the superstar preacher, but you fall in love with other faiths more than your own?Įaster morning would help give her an answer.Ī story about doubt may seem like an odd topic for an Easter weekend. “The fear rose up from a more primitive part of my brain that had been taught to fear a jealous God’s wrath if I did not love him and him alone,” Taylor says. But her spiritual wandering made her feel at times as if she was guilty of a crime. Taylor once called herself a “detective of divinity” for her ability to collect evidence of God’s genius. And she became so disillusioned with her own that she “could not look it in the eyes.”
She found herself drawn to “someone else’s rose.” She began to see beauty and truth in other people’s religions. Strangers approached her in grocery stores with reverence and awe.īut something happened to her as her reputation spread. She appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s “SuperSoul Sunday” show. She was a widely sought-after speaker whose sermons were compared to “literary gems.” Her books made the New York Times’ best-sellers list.
On the surface, Taylor led a life that most people would envy. Taylor gave one answer that day but today she has another: The story she can’t quite figure out is her own. “What is the story you are working on that doesn’t have an ending yet?” Barbara Brown Taylor was attending a seminar one day when someone asked her a question that she hasn’t been able to forget.
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