A Provocative Anthology Of 18 Original Stories By America's Premier Black Authors; Including Sapphire, Natasha Tarpley, Reginald Harris and Pamela Sneed; Covering the full spectrum of black experience and identity, these titilating tales reveal sexuality and sensuality in all their varied and exotic[...]

A leading female preacher chronicles her personal odyssey of faith and the tensions of her religious life, a conflict that leads her to leave the church in order to maintain her relationship with God and that takes her on an unexpected path of belief. Reprint.[...]

Follow Barbara Brown Taylor on her journey to understand darkness, which takes her spelunking in unlit caves, learning to eat and cross the street as a blind person, discover-ing how "dark emotions" are prevented from seeing light from a psychiatrist, and reread-ing scripture to see all the times Go[...]

In this selection of new sermons, Barbara Brown Taylor walks us through the church year, from the expectancy of Advent to the fires of Pentecost and beyond.[...]

Play impacts on various aspects of human behaviour and development, including the social, physical, cognitive, creative, emotional and spiritual worlds. This book provides an overview of contemporary play and playwork. It covers topics such as playwork identity; play environments; the role of the pl[...]

Back in print after a number of years, Mixed Blessings is Barbara Brown Taylor's earliest sermon collection. These sermons are a series of conversations with a familiar and well-loved community on topics ranging from Abraham and Moses to the communion of saints and how to recognize a miracle when it[...]

An enduring classic from award-winning writer Barbara Brown Taylor, and a timeless meditation for all who thirst for a God who often seems to be silent. It considers the limitations of the language we have at our disposal to speak about God; the stupendous responsibility upon anyone who attempts to [...]