Lauren Winner discusses her memoir Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis

Sat 2/25 3pm-4pm
Lauren Winner discusses her memoir Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis


In the critically acclaimed memoir Girl Meets God, Lauren F. Winner chronicled her sojourn from Judaism to Christianity. Now, in Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, Winner describes how experiences of loss and failure unexpectedly slam her into a wall of doubt and spiritual despair: “My belief has faltered, my sense of God’s closeness has grown strained, my efforts at living in accord with what I take to be the call of the gospel have come undone.”

Witty, relatable, and fiercely honest, Winner lays bare her experience of what she calls the “middle” of the spiritual life. In elegant and spare prose, she explores why—in the midst of the overwhelming anxiety, loneliness, and boredom of her deepest questioning about where (or if) God is—the Christian story still explains who she is better than any other story she’s ever known. Still is an absorbing meditation combining literary grace with spiritual wisdom. It is sure to resonate with anyone looking to sustain a spiritual life in the midst of real life.

Lauren F. Winner is the author of numerous books, including Girl Meets God and Mudhouse Sabbath . She teaches at Duke Divinity School in Durham. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture , and other periodicals.

 

Author photo by Jen Fariello

 

 

 

 

Event date: 
Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 3:00pm
Event address: 
752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Next to Foster's Market, Kitchen & Flying Burrito
27514 Chapel Hill
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ISBN: 9780061768118
Published: HarperOne - January 31st, 2012

Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline By Lauren F. Winner Cover Image
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