
Holy Envy
Finding God in the Faith of Others
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Hillary Huber
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.
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.
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Thought provoking and challenging
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Fake accent is beyond annoying
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Wow - I highly recommend this book! It was an emotional roller coaster as will as deeply spiritual!
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of spiritual/religious thoughts on every person ---> from religious/areligious; spiritual/aspiritual; theist/non- theist/atheist alike.
Holy Envy draws one in to the value of religious understanding, moral reasoning and finding the truth underlying religious
practices. This book begins the discovery
of my religious journey. As a fellow clergy-person (along with the author) I felt
encouraged to open my heart and mind to another's rich faith experience.
Thank you, Barbara Brown Taylor !!
An Excellent Account of HOLY ENVY
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Wonderfully challenging
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Wow!!!
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People of different faiths. Learn about other faiths and how we all can find some common ground and discover something good in those faiths that makes us discover some holy envy of that goodness. Fascinating!
Learning about other Faiths
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Freedom
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Love BBT but the reader does not convey her narrative voice
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This is one of my all-time favorite books, and I recommend it without reservation!
An open-hearted journey of faith. Superb!!!
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