Daniel Taylor (writer)

Daniel Taylor (b. 1948) is an American writer. He is the author of nine books, including The Myth of Certainty, Letters to My Children, Tell Me A Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories, In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands, and, appearing in fall 2011, Creating a Spiritual Legacy: How to Share Your Stories, Values, and Wisdom. He speaks frequently at conferences, colleges, retreats, and churches on a variety of topics. Taylor is also co-founder of The Legacy Center,^[1] an organization devoted to helping individuals and organizations identify and preserve the values and stories that have shaped their lives. He is a contributing editor of Books and Culture.^[2]

A recurring topic in Taylor’s work is the role of stories in shaping lives. He points out that we are born into stories, live in stories, and pass away leaving a legacy of stories. Stories, he argues, are the single best way human beings have discovered for preserving and making sense of their experience, and understanding this increases one’s ability to make one’s own life story a rich one.

In addition to his books and articles, Taylor has served as a stylist for several Bible translations, including the New Living Translation^[3] and a revision of the New Century Version. He also co-produced the newly released The Expanded Bible.

Taylor received his B.A. from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California and an M.A. and Ph.D in English from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He taught literature and writing at Bethel University^[4] for thirty-three years.

Personal life

Taylor is married and the father of four children. He currently resides in St. Paul, MN.

Selected publications

• The Myth of Certainty (1986, IVP Books, 1999) ISBN 0830822372
• Letters to My Children: A Father Passes on His Values (1989, Bog Walk Press, 2010) ISBN 0970651120
• Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories (Bog Walk Press, 2001) ISBN 0970651104 (Originally published as The Healing Power of Story, Doubleday, 1996)
• Before Their Time: Lessons in Living from Those Born Too Soon (InterVarsity Press, 2000) ISBN 0830822652
• Is God Intolerant?: Christian Thinking about the Call for Tolerance (Tyndale House Publisher, 2003) ISBN 0842354395
• In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands (Bog Walk Press, 2005) ISBN 0970651112
• The Expanded Bible (Thomas Nelson, 2009) ISBN 0718019849
• Creating a Spiritual Legacy: How to Share Your Stories, Values, and Wisdom (Brazos Press, 2011) forthcoming

Online writings

• Rest for the Weary: Eliot’s Four Quartets, Books and Culture, January/February 2009 ^[5]
• How to Pick a President: Why Virtue Trumps Policy, Christianity Today, June 2008 ^[6]
• Living with a Big Poem: Reflections on the Waste Land, Books and Culture, September/October 2005 ^[7]
• Many Bibles, One Scripture: The Gift of Translation, Books and Culture, September/October 2002 ^[8]
• Wizards and Hobbits, Books and Culture, May/June 1996 ^[9]
• In Pursuit of Character, Part I, Christianity Today, December 1995 ^[10]
• In Pursuit of Character, Part II, Christianity Today, December 1995 ^[11]

References

1. ^ "Legacy Center Founders". http://www.thelegacycenter.net/aboutus.html. 
2. ^ "Books and Culture". http://www.booksandculture.com. 
3. ^ "New Living Translation: Discover the NLT - Meet the Scholars". http://www.newlivingtranslation.com/05discoverthenlt/meetthescholars.asp. 
4. ^ "Taylor Faculty Page". http://cas.bethel.edu/dept/english/faculty/index. 
5. ^ http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2009/janfeb/15.41.html
6. ^ http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/june/17.22.html
7. ^ http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2005/sepoct/14.42.html
8. ^ http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2002/sepoct/1.24.html
9. ^ http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/1996/mayjun/6b304b.html
10. ^ http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1995/december11/5te29a.html
11. ^ http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1995/december11/5te29b.html

External links

• Daniel Taylor's Website [1]
• Daniel Taylor's Speaker Biography for the Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing [2]
• Daniel Taylor's Amazon Author Page [3]
• Daniel Taylor's Biography from Image (journal) [4]

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