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Hi, Spiritual Livers! We have begun our discussion of Barbara Brown Taylor's book, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith. Taylor is a graduate of Emory University and Yale Divinity School. She was ordained in 1984 and began her ministry at All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta. She now holds the Harry R. Butman Chair in Religion and Philosophy at Piedmont College in Demorest, GA, and is Adjunct Professor of Spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur. She is the author of 12 books.

An Altar in the World reached #27 on the New York Times Bestseller List in 2009. In her book she encourages us to reclaim the physicality of our faith. "The whole world is the House of God," she writes, and "the meaning of life can be found in the everyday activities, accidents, and encounters of life."

Class members are invited to use this blog to post their thoughts on the book, as well as recommend sites to visit out in the world, post photographs of nature, or otherwise keep in touch.