Background
Taylor, Barbara Brown was born on September 21, 1951 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Earl Clement and Grace McGahee Brown.
religious studies educator writer
Taylor, Barbara Brown was born on September 21, 1951 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Earl Clement and Grace McGahee Brown.
Taylor did her undergraduate studies at Emory University where she graduated in 1973. She then went on to study at Yale Divinity School, where she graduated in 1976.
In 2014, the TIME magazine placed her in its annual TIME 100 list of most influential people in the world. In 1996, she was named one of the twelve "most effective" preachers in the English-speaking world by Baylor University. She later left parish ministry and became a full-time professor at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia and an adjunct professor of Christian spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.
In February 2009, Barbara Brown Taylor led the 2nd annual Piedmont College religion conference in Athens, Georgia.
Taylor was also the keynote speaker at the conference in previous years. She has written twelve books on faith and spirituality.
She lives at her farm in northern Georgia, with husband Edward Taylor.
Member Yale Division School Board Advisors, New Haven. Board advisors Buechner Institute. Member of Authors Guild, Georgia Writers Association, Society.Bibl.
Literature, American Academy Religion.
Married E. Edward Taylor, November 20, 1982.