Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis - Softcover

Winner, Lauren F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061768286 ISBN 13: 9780061768286

Publisher: HarperOne, 2013

Synopsis

Following up her highly acclaimed Girl Meets God, author Lauren F. Winner has written an engrossing reflection of literary grace and spiritual wisdom with Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis.

As she lives through a failed marriage and the loss of her mother, Winner finds her Christian faith slipping away. Through reading religious works and tomes and being counseled by leaders of the church, she learns she must find the courage to trust in God in order to to find His presence.

Elegantly written and profound, Still offers reflections on how murky and gray the spiritual life can be while, at the same time, shows us how to see the light we do encounter more clearly.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Lauren F. Winner, author of thecritically acclaimed memoir Girl MeetsGod, here describes how the loss ofher mother and the collapse of hermarriage slam her into a wall of doubt.Witty, relatable, and fiercely honest,Winner lays bare her experience ofwhat she calls the "middle stage" ofthe spiritual life. In elegant and spareprose, she explores why—in themidst of the overwhelming anxiety,loneliness, and boredom of her deepestquestioning about where (or if) Godis—the Christian story still explainsher better than any other story she'sever known and how she arrived ata deeper and better place. Still is anabsorbing meditation combiningliterary grace with spiritual wisdom.It is sure to provide comfort and hopeto all spiritual travelers.

About the Author:

Lauren F. Winner is an ordained Episcopal priest and the author of numerous books, including Girl Meets God, Real Sex, Mudhouse Sabbath, and Still, which won the Christianity Today Book Award in Spirituality. She 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0061768286
• ISBN 13: 9780061768286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272