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Title: Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life by Lauren F. Winner ISBN: 1-56512-309-3 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (40 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Loved it, looking forward to more by Lauren Winner
Comment: I picked this book up by chance at my local library. Having lived through my husband's conversion to Christianity (and then his seminary education), I found this to be an honest and very real account of what it is like to go through this kind of spiritual rebirth. I found myself nodding and grinning throughout the book, and read most of it out loud to whomever would listen because it touched me so deeply.
Aside from some disagreements I have with Lauren's assessment of Luther and Lutherans (a-hem), I will be recommending this especially to some college-age young women I know. Can't wait to see what Lauren Winner writes next.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great, thoughful read
Comment: Girl Meets God is a thoughtful approach to a young adult's conversion from Jewish culture into Christianity. I appreciated her honesty in dealing with issues of her heart and soul. For those that have struggled with their own faith, they may find Winner's journey interesting, insightful & helpful. Readers that are unfamiliar with Jewish culture or Christian rituals will find Winner's descriptions and explanations to be informative. At the end of the book, I found myself wanting to write out my own personal story of faith.
Rating: 4
Summary: Delightful Spiritual Memoir!
Comment: Lauren Winner, a graduate student in her late twenties, comes from a mixed religious background. The book follows her on a spiritual roller-coaster ride through two major conversions. First, although she always considered herself Jewish, she must go through a long and difficult process to "convert" to Orthodox Judaism. And yet, even as she is working this out, she is being drawn to Jesus, and her second conversion, ending up as an Anglican Christian. And then she must struggle to sort out what she has gained and lost, rebuild relationships, and integrate the two streams of her heritage.
As the book ends, she has not finished this hard work by any means, but she has begun going back to her Jewish roots to understand her Christian life more deeply.
Author Lauren Winner is an intelligent, witty, intellectual young woman, someone you would like to spend hours with, just chatting, talking about spiritual things, sharing favorite books--yes, I loved the Mitford books, too. She writes in a lucid, conversational style, with a sparkling sense of humor. By the end of the book I felt I knew her well.
The book is not perfect. It leaves far too much unexplained, and, as other reviewers have noted, she is perhaps a little early in the process to be writing this memoir. Still, I enjoyed it immensely. As someone who has walked a similar path, I felt privileged to share in hers. I recommend this book highly! Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.
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Title: Mudhouse Sabbath by Lauren F. Winner ISBN: 1557253447 Publisher: Paraclete Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The House Where the Hardest Things Happened : A Memoir About Belonging by Kate Young Caley ISBN: 0385502982 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Girl Meets God : A Memoir by Lauren F. Winner ISBN: 0812970802 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Practicing Resurrection : A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace by Nora Gallagher ISBN: 0375405941 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Things Seen and Unseen : A Year Lived in Faith by Nora Gallagher ISBN: 0679775498 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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