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“I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.” -- Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners
My name is David Taylor, and I’ve been a pastor for twenty years, an academic for ten, and I’ve been shepherding artists for almost thirty years now.
This is the place where I think out loud about things that I’m reading, writing, teaching, seeing, and speaking about. That’s either art and faith, art and theology, art and the church, art and prayer, art and culture, art and worship, along with any other way that the arts intersect our lives as followers of Jesus.
In 2025 I’ll be writing a book on the vocation of artists for Brazos Press, so I’ll be posting excerpts from the book throughout the year. I’ll also be sharing about the book that I’m co-editing with Dan Train at Duke Divinity School for IVP Academic, Naming the Spirit: Pneumatology through the Arts, which includes a collection of essays by scholars on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in conversation with the arts.
Professionally, I teach theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Ecclesially, I’m a priest in the Anglican tradition. Personally, I am married to a marvelous visual artist and gardener, Phaedra Jean, and I am the father to two children whom I love from here to the moon and back, Ruby Blythe Marie and William Sebastian Wolf.
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