Barbara Brown Taylor (born 1951) is an American Episcopal priest, academic, and author.

[5] She taught world religions and exposed her mainly Christian students to other faiths so they could better understand how various groups worship.

[5] In 1996, she was named one of the twelve "most effective" preachers in the English-speaking world by Baylor University.

[7] In February 2009, Barbara Brown Taylor led the second annual Piedmont College religion conference in Athens, Georgia.

[1][10] In February 2010, days before Piedmont College's religion conference, Taylor ranked in the top ten most influential living preachers in a poll conducted by the Southern Baptist Convention.