Books by Angela Taylor
Not from a distance. Not from a place of having arrived. From the middle of the untangling, where most of us actually live.
Advent for Women
After the prophet Malachi put down his pen, God went quiet. No prophet. No new word. Four hundred years of silence, and generation after generation left to decide whether they still believed a promise none of them had seen come true.
Then the silence broke, and it broke with a baby crying in Bethlehem.
Still Waiting begins in that long quiet and walks you all the way to the manger: twenty-eight days, four weeks, through Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. You will keep company with Hannah, Elizabeth, Mary, Anna, and Ruth, and with Corrie ten Boom, Fanny Crosby, Mother Teresa, and Harriet Tubman. Women who waited at real cost and kept their lamps lit.
A few quiet minutes a day, written for the woman who is making Christmas happen for everybody else.
Buy Two
One for you, and one for the busiest woman you know. She will not buy it for herself, and she needs it in her hands before Sunday, November 29. Leave it on her porch with a note. It also works beautifully for a small group or Sunday school class walking through Advent together.
Every year, most of us drag the same box out of storage. Inside: the same tangled lights, the same burned-out bulbs, the same frustrated twenty minutes before the lights can do what they were made to do. Shine.
We do the same with guilt and shame. We untangle, experience the light, then throw it all back in the bin because we are tired.
Angela Taylor knows this from the inside. This book is about why that happens, and what changes when you finally understand the difference between what is yours to lay down and what was never yours to carry at all.
What Readers Are Saying
"I know so many people who need to read this book like I did."Shelly Matthews
"Practical and applicable ways to heal with the Lord's help."Sabrina Maness
"This is great, and even though it's written with women in mind, it translates to men just the same. I love the differentiation between shame and shamed."Ryan Akers, Small Group Pastor
"Angela is blessed by the Lord with words we need to hear."Sandy Field
"This is just the beginning of how God is going to move in women through Angela's words and books."Amy Salazar
Free Gift: The Road to Free Playlist
A curated 10-song playlist that walks the same road as the book, opening with Jelly Roll's I'm Not Okay and closing with Brandon Lake & Jelly Roll's Hard Fought Hallelujah.
How to get it: Email angela@designedtolead.life with the subject "Road to Free Playlist" and it will be on its way.
Pieced Together
For a long time, the only place Angela could talk freely was in her car. The moment she pulled away from the house, she would dial her mother's number, and suddenly she could breathe again.
Those conversations became a lifeline: the one place where truth could exist without consequences. Her mother is gone now. But the conversations haven't stopped.
In Hey Mom: Pieced Together, Angela writes the letters she still needs to send, the ones she got to have and the ones she never did. Raw, warm, and deeply faithful, for anyone who has loved someone they've lost, or simply wishes they had one more conversation.
A Study on James
James did not write to people who needed more information. He wrote to people who already knew what they believed and had to go live it on an ordinary weekday.
Practical Christianity is a six-week walk through his letter with your boots on. Each week sets James beside someone in Scripture who lived it out, or did not: Joseph in the pit and the prison, Saul and his halfway obedience, Ruth and Boaz, Peter and his unruly tongue, Paul and Barnabas at odds, and Elijah on his knees.
Trials and temptation. Favoritism. The tongue. Pride, patience, and prayer. James covers all of it, and he does not let any of it stay on the page.
About the Writing
"These are not books about having the answers. They are invitations to stay in the room long enough to find them."
Every one of Angela's books comes from the same honest place: a life examined without flinching. As a coach, community chaplain, and someone who has lived through things she once couldn't say out loud, her writing carries the weight of real experience and the grace of hard-won faith.
She writes from scar tissue, not theory.
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Still Waiting and Untying Your Knots are available now. Hey Mom: Pieced Together and Practical Christianity: A Study on James are on the way. Drop us a line and we'll make sure you're first to know.
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