2008 Harvey Lecturer

Seminary of the Southwest

Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor

“Sabbath: Self-Care or the Mending of the World?”

Monday, March 3

Preaching in Christ Chapel at 11:15am

Lecture at 6:30pm in Knapp Auditorium

Please note – Seating in Knapp Auditorium is very limited and its doors will open at 6 pm

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The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor will explore “Sabbath: Self-Care or the Mending of the World?” during her March 3 Harvey Lecture at the Seminary of the Southwest.

Taylor, renowned preacher, author and teacher, will be on the seminary campus all day – preaching at the 11:15 am chapel service and beginning her Harvey Lecture at 6:30 pm in Knapp Auditorium. Both events are open to the public without charge.

After completing 15 years in full-time parish ministry, Taylor joined the Piedmont College faculty as Butman professor of religion eleven years ago. She also became adjunct professor of Christian spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia in 2001.

An editor-at-large for “The Christian Century” and sometime commentator on Georgia Public Radio, she is the author of 11 books, including When God isSilent (Cowley 1998) and Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (HarperSanFrancisco 2006).

The Harvey Lectures, organized annually by seminarians, honor the late Very Rev. Hudnall Harvey, dean of the Seminary of the Southwest from 1968 to his death in 1972. The lectureship serves as a living memorial to Dean Harvey’s ministry at the seminary.

Founded after World War II by then Texas Bishop Coadjutor John Hines, the Seminary of the Southwest enrolls 105 students in a variety of degree programs. About one-half are divinity students with the other being working lay people who are enrolled in the part-time master of arts degrees in pastoral ministry (discipleship, spiritual formation or chaplaincy) and counseling.

Biography – Barbara Brown Taylor

Butman Professor of Religion, Piedmont College

Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality, Columbia Theological Seminary

Barbara Brown Taylor is an Episcopal priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta who teaches religion at Piedmont College in rural northeast Georgia . Before becoming a teacher in 1997, she spent fifteen years in full time parish ministry. In 2001, she joined the faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur , Georgia , as adjunct professor of Christian spirituality. An editor-at-large for The Christian Century and sometime commentator on Georgia Public Radio, she is the author of eleven books, including When God Is Silent (Cowley 1998) and Leaving Church : A Memoir of Faith (HarperSanFrancisco 2006).

 Books

Leaving Church, HarperSanFrancisco, 2006

The Seeds of Heaven, Westminster John Knox, 2004

Speaking of Sin, Cowley, 2000

The Luminous Web, Cowley, 2000

Home By Another Way, Cowley, 1999

When God is Silent, Cowley, 1998

Mixed Blessings, Cowley, 1998

God in Pain, Abingdon, 1998

Bread of Angels, Cowley, 1997

Gospel Medicine, Cowley, 1995

The Preaching Life, Cowley, 1993

Education

Yale Divinity School , Master of Divinity, 1976

Emory University , Bachelor of Arts in Religion, 1973

Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degrees

Wake Forest University , 2006

The University of the South, 2005

Hastings University , 2005

Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 2002

Colgate University , 2001

Virginia Theological Seminary, 2001

Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, 1997

Piedmont College , 1995

Memberships and Honors

Board of Advisors, Yale Divinity School

Board of Visitors, McAfee School of Theology

The American Academy of Religion

The Society of Biblical Literature

The Author’s Guild

Who's Who Among America 's Teachers 2002, 2004 & 2005

The Emory Medal, Emory University , 1998

Yale Divinity School Alumni Award, 1993

Associated Church Press Award of Excellence, 1996, 2001-2003