An altar in the world a geography of faith taylor barbara brown isbn 9780061370472 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The entire premise of the book subtitled a geography of faith is that there are altars everywhere and we can constantly worship and minister wherever we are she does not discount the extreme value of communal worship but she sees the sacred in the everyday each chapter explores a different altar such as getting lost encountering others walking paying attention she spends time talking aboout. Her most recent writings have a very different feel to them and are more like collections of essays than the sermon collections of the past taylor wrote a memoir of her shift from parish ministry to teaching in a book entitled leaving church and her latest work is an altar in the world a geography of faith these later works seem to target the spiritual but not religious segment of the reading public and are filled with the same skilled prose that marked her earlier . Altar in the world an a geography of faith barbara brown taylor in her critically acclaimed leaving church a beautiful absorbing memoir dallas morning news barbara brown taylor wrote about leaving full time ministry to become a professor a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith