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Original Title:	An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
ISBN:	0061370460 (ISBN13: 9780061370465)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Rodda Book Award (2012), San Francisco Book Festival for Spiritual (2010)

An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith Hardcover | Pages: 216 pages

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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. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World, she shares how she learned to encounter God beyond the walls of any church.

From simple practices such as walking, working, and getting lost to deep meditations on topics like prayer and pronouncing blessings, Taylor reveals concrete ways to discover the sacred in the small things we do and see. Something as ordinary as hanging clothes on a clothesline becomes an act of devotion if we pay attention to what we are doing and take time to attend to the sights, smells, and sounds around us. Making eye contact with the cashier at the grocery store becomes a moment of true human connection. Allowing yourself to get lost leads to new discoveries. Under Taylor's expert guidance, we come to question conventional distinctions between the sacred and the secular, learning that no physical act is too earthbound or too humble to become a path to the divine. As we incorporate these practices into our daily lives, we begin to discover altars everywhere we go, in nearly everything we do.

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Title	:	An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
Author	:	Barbara Brown Taylor
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 216 pages
Published	:	February 10th 2009 by HarperOne (first published January 1st 2009)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Religion. Spirituality. Faith. Theology. Christian. Autobiography. Memoir

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My pastor recommended this book for reading during Lent. It was fabulous. I'm not much of a nonfiction reader, so when I say it's really good--that's a huge compliment!Taylor's approach is a bit unorthodox, but her general idea is that God can be found everywhere, not just within the walls of the church. The book explores that concept. I'd love to read something else by here.

I loved this book from cover to cover. The way Barbara Brown Taylor writes about the things of everyday life make me more grateful to be human. This book is for the person who wants to feel more connection to God throughout the day. Household chores, walking, cooking, going to Target...all of these things can be spiritual practices. I plan on reading this book again and again and sharing it with people who want to live a more intentional life.I especially loved the chapters on community,

An Altar in the World is, in many ways, an unremarkable book: it is quiet, it is humble, it spouts obvious truths. Barbara Brown Taylor is not the first person to seek after an undivided life, a holistic spirituality, a Christianity which is more concerned with Christ than with religion... indeed, her own pages, which draw on sources ranging from Desert Fathers to Mystics to Quakers, testify to that fact: we have long sought wholeness. Yet despite all our postmodern striving towards unity, we

I wondered how I had forgotten that the whole world is the House of God. Who had persuaded me that God preferred four walls and a roof to wide-open spaces? When had I made the subtle switch myself, becoming convinced that church bodies and buildings were the safest and most reliable places to encounter the living God? (p. 4, An Altar in the World) Thus it is that Barbara Brown Taylor begins finding altars in the world as places where even the most reverent or the most jaded among us can

The author is an Episcopal priest who is no longer in what we would term "active ministry." 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

I went to kneel at Barbara Brown Taylor's many altars presented herein and was repeatedly thunderstruck by her simple profundities. There was no way I could hurry through this book. It demanded my undivided attention and I quickly realized that if I started highlighting passages, I would wear out many a marker. Every chapter examines different forms of spiritual practices, from walking on the Earth (including my favorite practice of walking labyrinths), to living with purpose,pronouncing

I liked "Leaving Church" and "Learning to Walk in the Dark", but "An Altar in the World" was the first of Taylor's books to profoundly affect me. So much so, that I decided to incorporate the spiritual practices she discusses into my Lenten observance this year. She is such a graceful writer and there was so much of how she views God that sunk into the marrow of my bones.