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Title: Mudhouse Sabbath by Lauren F. Winner ISBN: 1-55725-344-7 Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA) Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Mudhouse Sabbath
Comment: Lauren F. Winner is truly a winner both as a writer and as a person. Having been brought up in the faith of the christ [...] he soon realized the error of his ways and had an epiphany in which he came to see that only trhough accepting Jesus as his savior could he be truly saved. He is a remarkable writer and scholar and should be read by all.
Rating: 5
Summary: A short book, but packed with substance
Comment: I admit it: I was delighted when a friend gave me this book, because it looked short and sweet. It's small enough to fit in your purse! But, despite its small size, this book is packed with wonderful information, a million suggestions about how to incorporate spiritual practices into your life, all accompanied by hysterical stories about the author trying to live out these practices herself. So don't be decived by the small size. This book is bursting with information and charm.
Rating: 5
Summary: ISAIAH 42:6-7
Comment: "Mudhouse Sabbath" happened to be the first book I read by Lauren Winner, because I wanted to learn more about Judaism, and it was in the Judaica section of a New York bookstore. I really enjoyed the reading because I learned about Judaism differently, in terms of Lauren Winner's personal anecdotes and stories. The book appeared to be so convincing that, at the end, I thought: "But WHY did she convert to Christianity if she loves Judaism so much?" But things are not that simple and reductive.
In Mudhouse Sabbath, Lauren Winner, who comes mainly from a Jewish background, describes the Jewish spiritual practices and ways that still make sense in her new life as a Christian, and that should maybe also make sense to all Christians and people of all faiths. It is with a rare insight that she is able to put the Jewish and Christian practices in parallel, and make a plea for Jewish light in everybody's life. One of the key-practices, the Sabbath, towards which the week turns in Judaism, is probably the one practice she misses (or would miss...) the most, and suggested the title of her book.
All the Christian practices of her new life simply do not manage to supersede or replace her past Jewish practices. These Jewish practices encompass many everyday aspects of life, and were so enriching to her that she came over time to the following logical conclusion: Why not incorporate (or re-incorporate after all) all these Jewish practices and ways in my Christian life? The book even goes further, and is most convincing in this regard, in that it offers support in favour of integrating (or re-integrating) all these practices and ways in the lives of all Christians.
Among these practices and ways, are thus the Sabbath, the laws of Kashrut, the mourning process, the hospitality, the prayer, the being of a body, the fasting, the aging, the candle-lighting, the weddings, and the doorposts.
But for those who still want the answer to the question of the first paragraph, it is only in the light of her memoir, "girl meets God", that one will fully grasp the reasons why Lauren Winner converted to Christianity WITHOUT however, leaving Judaism. And the answer is this: There is a way to live by one faith in the light of another, this being ultimately in the service of God, and Lauren shows us this way.
As One once said to His people, "I have set you for a light of the nations; to open the blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon". (ISAIAH 42:6-7)
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Title: Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life by Lauren F. Winner ISBN: 1565123093 Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Girl Meets God: A Memoir by Lauren F. Winner ISBN: 0812970802 Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The House Where the Hardest Things Happened: A Memoir About Belonging by Kate Young Caley ISBN: 0385502982 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 18 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Home is Always the Place You Just Left: A Memoir of Restless Longing and Persistent Grace by Betty Smartt Carter, Betty Smartt Carter ISBN: 1557253234 Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA) Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith by Nora Gallagher ISBN: 0679775498 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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