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The renowned and beloved New York Times best-selling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world's religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.
Barbara Brown Taylor continues her spiritual journey begun in Leaving Church of finding out what the world looks like after taking off her clergy collar. In Holy Envy, she contemplates the myriad ways other people and traditions encounter the transcendent, both by digging deeper into those traditions herself and by seeing them through her students' eyes as she sets off with them on field trips to monasteries, temples, and mosques.
Troubled and inspired by what she learns, Taylor returns to her own tradition for guidance, finding new meaning in old teachings that have too often been used to exclude religious strangers instead of embracing the divine challenges they present. Reimagining some central stories from the religion she knows best, she takes heart in how often God chooses outsiders to teach insiders how out-of-bounds God really is.
Throughout Holy Envy, Taylor weaves together stories from the classroom with reflections on how her own spiritual journey has been complicated and renewed by connecting with people of other traditions - even those whose truths are quite different from hers. Â
The one constant in her odyssey is the sense that God is the one calling her to disown her version of God - a change that ultimately enriches her faith in other human beings and in God.
Download Holy Envy Finding God in the Faith of Others Audible Audio Edition Barbara Brown Taylor Hillary Huber HarperAudio Books
"I loved this book because it was so full of love, empathy, and respect for people from all over the world and the way they worship. I loved the stories of her students and think how fortunate they were to be exposed to others of different religions on the exciting field trips were they were welcomed with love and respect where they developed meaningful relationships with people from different faiths. She talked a lot about welcoming the stranger and about what could be learned about their cultures and beliefs. This is a time when others are afraid of those not like themselves and I feel many would benefit from reading this book. It is an easy read and not at all dry. To me it showed how people all over the world worship God but read different books to understad and worship God."
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Holy Envy Finding God in the Faith of Others Audible Audio Edition Barbara Brown Taylor Hillary Huber HarperAudio Books Reviews
- On the day this book was published, someone gave it a 1-star review because they do not like what Barbara Brown Taylor has to say in the book which they have not read, based on what they read the back cover. And they base their 1-star on its premise which is one that they will never accept. Hardly a fair shake for a book review. My copy arrives on Friday and I will gladly review the actual book. I have read 5 of her other books, I suspect I am going to love this one, too. But I won't make that my review until I have read it.
- I had the opportunity to read this book in advance to interview Taylor for my podcast "What and Why with Max Roth." (Shameless plug).
Having not read Taylor before, I was afraid I might be devoting hours to fluffy drivel lionizing relativity and minimizing genuine belief and devotion to the traditions discussed. I'm all for understanding and appreciating wisdom across faiths. I just hate it when the writer acts as if they have a higher vantage from which they can see that we're all really the same, if we'd just open ourselves up to their understanding.
Taylor is not that kind of thinker and writer. She's really a genuine seeker who has questions about her own faith and sometimes finds answers outside of it. She writes about this with clarity, empathy, self-deprecation, and even joy.
Taylor also writes with passion about her own Christian perspective. If you are a person of Christian faith, you may find yourself disagreeing. There was a time or two when her reading of the gospel was different from mine, but I could follow her thoughts and engage with her ideas, and learn from them. For example, in talking about Jesus returning to Galilee and reading from Isaiah, she suggests that Jesus reacted emotionally after making a possibly false assumption that his listeners were judging him harshly. It's an interpretation I don't agree with, but I see the way she reached it and will take it into consideration in my future studies.
Ok, that was kind of a tangent and shows my own geeky way of interacting with the book. It's my way of saying I think Taylor is worth reading.
The's books also fun, full of stories, and is comforting for anyone who feels like faith is something of a moving target. - The honest, poetically written story of a personal journey to which many can relate. Destined to be a classic in religion reading—and one that will push many to look deeper to what it means to be an authentic human being and to meet those who are “strangers.†I loved it!
- I loved this book because it was so full of love, empathy, and respect for people from all over the world and the way they worship. I loved the stories of her students and think how fortunate they were to be exposed to others of different religions on the exciting field trips were they were welcomed with love and respect where they developed meaningful relationships with people from different faiths. She talked a lot about welcoming the stranger and about what could be learned about their cultures and beliefs. This is a time when others are afraid of those not like themselves and I feel many would benefit from reading this book. It is an easy read and not at all dry. To me it showed how people all over the world worship God but read different books to understad and worship God.
- For some unknown reason, I had not visited her web site before - (barbarabrowntaylor.com).
“Hello, I’m Barbara Brown Taylor. I say things you’re not supposed to say.â€
Then follows a quote from TIME magazine that compares her spiritual nonfiction (in its poetic power) to that of C. S. Lewis and Frederick Buechner. Then follow pictures of the covers of her four latest books and then a tab for more books. Then a short biosketch that lists some of her most recent kudos (same as the one here on ).
Was it unholy envy that I experienced? Maybe, maybe not. I certainly felt sad when I saw all this, for I am somewhat of a fan and have read almost all her books. I recognized quickly (and I hope correctly) that her web site is probably the work of a publicist who has convinced her that this is the way to sell a lot of books and get lots of speaking engagements – to tell the world how acclaimed and accomplished you are, how influential you have been through your writing and lectures.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but this is not who Barbara Brown Taylor really is, deep down, unless what she has written over the past decades in hundreds of pages is a cover for a quite different personality than shines through in them, including the most recent book (Holy Envy). I ordered Holy Envy from the day it was released.
The BBT I meet in this book is a gentle child of God, unsure of how to assimilate and integrate what she stumbles on when she embarks on teaching Religion 101 at Piedmont College, despite all the credentials and honorific titles she brings. She communicates beautifully the doubts and hesitation that you encounter when you begin teaching, and plunge into topics that involve major religions of the world that you have never really explored in depth. If you are honest and open minded, you find that you have begun a wrestling match with God, even though you may not have thought of it that way. Of course you are no match for G-d (neither was Jacob), and years of wrestling leave you exhausted at times, exhilarated at others. Finally, your brain is scrambled and body is tired and you realize that your years of active wrestling are limited. It is time to fall back onto somewhat familiar territory, even though the landscape may have changed quite a bit in all the time that you spent wrestling and learning a few basic facts and ideas. For you attempted to explore topics that have taken hundreds of years and millions of lives and “books†to evolve into their present state.
The book is full of lovely memories and experiences as well as unsettling ones, giving a glimpse into the complexities and difficulties of tackling living, active faiths and religions. You emerge with anecdotes but you realize how little you truly know and understand, even when you are hailed as one of the most influential thinkers in the world!
The chapter on Holy Envy towards the beginning of the book introduces Krister Stendahl to the reader along with his three rules of religious understanding. This alone made my purchase of the book worthwhile. This book is not an introduction to the major religions of the world. Huston Smith’s book (World Religions) is excellent, and BBT recommends it here. When I read that book many decades ago in an earlier incarnation, it made me want to become a follower of each of the faiths it described in its chapters. You could tell right away that Smith had followed Krister Stendahl’s rules; even better, he was a person who had actually immersed himself in the faith for a prolonged period of time before attempting to write about it.
There are also nuggets such as the ones in the chapters (towards the end) about being Born Again and Divine Diversity where BBT tackles passages from scripture and expresses ideas that make you think all over again about stories that you were puzzled by at some time. Here one gets a glimpse of the BBT that one saw in her earlier books of sermons; those were scattered with lynx-eyed observations and unexpected perspectives. I usually ended reading those with tears in my eyes.
Holy Envy does mention instances where people underwent transformations they may not have foreseen as a result of encountering different faiths. My personal experience was a transformation from a staunch atheist to a follower of Jesus in midlife. It was Jesus who opened my eyes and heart to other faiths and made me understand that he himself appears often as a stranger to people who call themselves Christians.
May people of different faiths learn to live together in peace and harmony. In the words of an Irish sage (John O’Donohue)
May the space between us be blessed with peace and joy
May the nourishment of the earth be yours.
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours. - The first couple of chapters I kept thinking, “This isn’t her best.†And suddenly once she lept out of trying to understand the students’ process, the Barbara T that I have known to love came alive. She is always so sweet with enough attractiveness to attract even the fiestiest, namely me. Her perspectives are amazing and transfiguring, and I feel like her books open me up to a whole new library for exploring my own faith.
- I like the book very much., for researching different religions. Why are the Romans no blamed for the crucifixion.?.
