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...
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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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061768118 (0061768111)
Publish date: January 31st 2012
Publisher: HarperOne
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Religion,
Christian,
Faith,
Biography Memoir,
Spirituality,
Theology
Winner found God and related her experience of discovering God and converting from Judaism to Christianity in Girl Meets God. She thought finding God was a done deal, that she was finished with struggle.Then she divorced her husband and found that God was gone. Winner was bereft, filled with anxiety...
I really like her writing, but just couldn't get into her story. Have heard lots of good things about her other works, but this one just didn't make the 50 page threshold.
Reviewed for Shelf Awareness Readers' Issue, 1/31/2012: http://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=64#m1303