Join us for a weekly group conversation about Barbara Brown Taylor’s book entitled “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith.”
Barbara Brown Taylor is an amazing woman (an Episcopal priest, professor, and best-selling author). She is a Yale Divinity School graduate, has written 20 books, lives on a working, rural farm in northeast GA with her husband. In 2014, Time magazine placed her in its annual “Time 100 List of Most Influential People in the World.” She says things in such a way that it truly impacts my mind and heart. In her “An Altar in the World,” she shows us “how to discover altars everywhere we go and in nearly everything we do as we learn to live with purpose, pay attention, slow down, see the holy in everything and revere the world we live in.” She reveals meaningful ways to discover the sacred in the small things we do and see every day – hanging clothes on the clothesline, making eye contact with the cashier at the grocery store as a moment of human connection.
There are 12 chapters in the book. One of our co-facilitators, Susie Bond, has chosen chapter 8 to start with (“Saying No: SABBATH”), then Carol Boyd will choose one she wants to facilitate, then we’re inviting any of you who would like to also choose chapters to lead us through will feel free to do so.
We chose THURSDAY NIGHTS this year, starting March 3, meeting together from 7:00-8:30 each week – and are choosing to do it again by ZOOM using this link or by dialing 301-715-8592 and entering meeting ID: 827 1815 1207 and Passcode: 495553.
This should give each of us time to order our books, look them over to acquaint ourselves and read Ch.8 before class if possible.
Some of the other chapters cover Community, Vocation, Prayer, Benediction among other things. We’re EXCITED and hope you will be also, and hope you’ll want to ZOOM with us again!
Blessings Be!
Susie Bond & Carol Boyd
“I have made a practice of saying no for one whole day a week: to work, to commerce, to the Internet, to the car, to the voice in my head that is forever whispering, ‘More.’ One day each week, More God is the only thing on my list.” (Barbara Brown Taylor).
