WATCH: Susan L. Taylor: A Life Of Meaning And Purpose

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00:00We didn't take courage to write about spirituality in a magazine because when I began writing in the

00:06spirit, there was no popular magazine in this nation that was writing about spirituality and

00:11the Holy Spirit. And no journalist inside of our community has ever asked me why. But so many

00:18outside of our community said you must get, you know, a lot of blowback from people talking about

00:23God, talking about the Creator, talking about the Holy Spirit. Never once in the what, how many years?

00:2927 years I wrote, you know, in the spirit. I guess, you know, what made me pause was what was I going to

00:35write about? When I became the editor-in-chief of the magazine, I hadn't gone to college at that point.

00:40I subsequently went back, but I was following Marsha Ann Gillespie, a brilliant, brilliant writer.

00:47And I just said, be yourself. Write about what you care about most and what you're most interested

00:52in investigating. And it was spirituality. So the column was named in the spirit.

00:59And it was cathedral. And all that's where we had,