February 16, 2007

Questions of Faith

By BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

I grew up on college campuses, with graduate students for babysitters. The eldest daughter of an academic psychologist, I looked forward to the faculty parties at my house, where my father's colleagues asked me serious questions and listened to my answers. Long after my mother sent me to bed, I would sit at the top of the steps listening to the witty banter down below. I loved academe even before I knew what it was called.

Still, I did not follow my father into college teaching, both

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