Lauren Winner

Still

Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis

Talking Points

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

Description

Author of the widely reviewed and much praised memoir Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner updates her story in Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis. Winner takes us on a spiritual journey that begins with unraveling as her marriage ends and a wall of doubt and spiritual emptiness confront her. However, this is not a book about darkness and crisis, but rather, as Winner puts it, “it is a picture of the end of the darkness, of the stumbling out of the darkness into something new.” By looking at “the middle stage” of the spiritual life through her own experience, Winner offers hope and counsel to people who share her experiences of frustration and disappointment while seeking spiritual intimacy and depth. In the end, Still helps readers reflect on how murky and gray the spiritual life can be while, at the same time, showing us how to see the light we do encounter more clearly.