In a 2005 question-and-answer session following a public lecture in Denver, Colorado, Barbara Brown Taylor was asked if she had any hope for the church. She replied that her hope for the church was in Clarkesville, Georgia, a town of fifteen hundred. In Clarkesville, she said, if you want to be Episcopalian (which she was) you have to worship with people you don’t like, people with whom you have nothing in common, and people with whom you would not voluntarily spend time anywhere else. But, if you want to be Episcopalian, you hunker down and learn to live together. That, she said, was her hope for the church.