Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Exceeding Our Expectations

Sara Smith and Lee Ann Bryce in the Wisconsin Council of Churches EcuNews [4 pp. pdf] (p. 3) report on the featured speaker at the 2006 Washington Island Forum.
...we mostly came to see her – The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor – Episcopal priest, sought-after speaker and popular writer, parish minister, college professor, and last but not least, preaching goddess.

She spoke on "What the Body Knows: Christian Faith in Practice."
Our frenzied notescribbling would only be broken by the collective "ahhh" when she would find in each of us a home for yet another rich spiritual nugget...

After the speech,
She faithfully signed our books and answered our endless questions, even when we approached her awkwardly and tongue-tied, as groupies often do. ...

In retrospect,
... Her wisdom has worked its way into our sermons and spiritual practices, even as the preaching goddess worked her way into our hearts.

1 comment:

  1. ah--but the BEST part was P. 4 of the PDF, wherein a Professor from our very own Seminary waxes eloquent about Easter Service rendered at an Episcopal church by a Lutheran...

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