June 14, 2009
Barbara Brown Taylor

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Barbara Brown Taylor has been a cashier, cheese-packer, horseback- riding instructor, an Avon lady, a nursing-unit clerk, cocktail waitress, secretary, newspaper reporter, an editor, a pastor, preacher - and now, professor. Professor Brown Taylor says not one of her jobs has been any more sacred than any other.

Mary Hynes talks to Barbara Brown Taylor, a priest in the Episcopal church. She spent fifteen years in parish ministry - and is now a professor of religion at Piedmont College in Georgia. Barbara Brown Taylor is the author of An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, published by Harper One.