There are several authors that I have struggled to connect with over the years. Barbara Brown Taylor is one of them - until her most recent book, An Altar in the World, I had never actually finished one of her books. Its nothing against her writing personally, but it just never seemed to connect with me. NT Wright is another of those authors - I have tried reading several of his books in the past and ran into the same thing that I did with BBT - I just didn't seem to connect or get drawn into the his writings.