by Susan Barnes | 25 May 2016 | Book Reviews
Lauren Winner has chosen an interesting premise for her book, Wearing God. She looks at the various metaphors the Bible uses for God but steers away from the ones we are more familiar with, such as King, Shepherd, Father. Instead she looks at the metaphors of...
by Susan Barnes | 29 Jul 2015 | Book Reviews
A number of thoughts have stayed with me since reading Still by Lauren Winner. My book review is here.One is, I wonder if her mid-faith crisis would have happened anyway. Lauren alludes to this as she writes about other people’s experience of doubt without a...
by Susan Barnes | 22 Jul 2015 | Book Reviews
Lauren Winner’s first book, Girl Meets God is the story of her conversion to Christian faith from a Jewish background. This book, Still, is “notes on a mid-faith crisis” and is a collection of thoughts, stories, poems and quotes from a period of time...
by Susan Barnes | 11 Aug 2014 | Book Reviews
Girl meets God by Lauren Winner is Lauren’s memoir of a spiritual quest. Lauren comes to Christian faith with a unique perspective as she was born to a Jewish father and a lapsed Baptist mother. Although she was brought up Jewish, she was not considered an...
by Susan Barnes | 16 Jul 2014 | Quoting Other Writers
This is an insightful quote about laughter from Lauren Winner’s book, Wearing God. My book review is here: ‘…the laughter of God is inseparable from God’s justice. In the here and now, the kind of laughter that friends of God pursue is laughter that...
