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In her critically acclaimed Departing Chapel ("a lovely, absorbing memoir."—Dallas Day News), Barbara Brown Taylor had written about leaving full-time ministry to become professor, a decision that extended the limitations of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World, she stocks how she discovered to come across God beyond the wall surfaces of any cathedral. From simple methods such as walking, working, and getting lost to deep meditations on subject areas like prayer and pronouncing blessings, Taylor uncovers concrete ways to discover the sacred in the small things we do and see. Something as regular as clinging clothes on a clothesline becomes an work of devotion if we pay attention to what we should are doing and take time to attend to the sights, smells, and looks all around us. Making eye connection with the cashier at the supermarket becomes a moment of true real human connection. Allowing yourself to get lost leads to new discoveries. Under Taylor's expert assistance, we come to question standard distinctions between the sacred and the secular, learning that no physical work is too earthbound or too humble to become way to the divine. Even as we incorporate these methods into our daily lives, we start to discover altars almost everywhere we go, in almost everything we do.
