This Sunday’s sermon has been a hot topic for pastors across the country for months. Barbara Brown Taylor, a critically-acclaimed Episcopal preacher and Islam professor at Piedmont College, has become a go-to for sermon counsel. “I would focus on wisdom gained. I would try to think about what we have learned over these 10 years,” she says of the anniversary Sunday. “What we have learned about our religious neighbors, what we have learned about ourselves, and what does our tradition teach us about how to go forward?”
Is anyone else struck by the choices she made about to whom to speak for this article? Talk about a non-inclusive list!
[i]Barbara Brown Taylor, a critically-acclaimed Episcopal preacher and Islam professor at Piedmont College[/i]
Taylor has “reinvented” herself several times over the years. Apparantly the latest being a “professor of Islam”. Although I did not preach this weekend, our rector did a wonderful job with 9/11 and the Gospel lesson on forgiveness. There were some direct impacts of the day 9/11 on our congregation and he faced these with the right balance. It was a day to remember. It was not excruciating to face it. But if you are Time, I guess you have to put that spin on it to try and sell some magazines.
Am I right in thinking that the only reference to Jesus was a passing reference to the lectionary:
Did I read that 9/11 has led to a better understanding of Islam? The last time I heard from Barbara Brown Taylor she was a pantheist and her husband was having Native American festivals on their land. She was too confined by TEC.