When God is Silent

“Reading of God''s silence in the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching-not as a deliberate withholding of God''s word nor, I hope, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence in the act of public speaking about God.”

In these 1997 Lyman Beecher Lectures in Preaching delivered at Yale Divinity School, Barbara Brown Taylor focuse...