Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis - Softcover

Winner, Lauren F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061768286 ISBN 13: 9780061768286

Publisher: Bravo Ltd, 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.

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Review:

"Anyone committed to truly examining the shape of personal faith, unfolding over the years in a broken world, should sense a fruitful opportunity, if not a solemn obligation, to expound at length...[Winner] probes these depths as deftly and eloquently as anyone writing today... An instant spiritual classic."--Christianity Today

"The book is made to pour over again and again. You'll fill the pages with underlines, the margins with notes. Each short chapter is loaded with insights that don't so much build on one another as weave a rich tapestry of possibilities in the midst of a spiritual desert."--Relevant Magazine

"[A] provocative memoir . . . an open, honest contemplation of a spiritual impasse."--Kirkus Reviews

"Not for the faint-hearted, Winner's book not only undresses and confronts doubt, but imparts new courage to trust God through it."--Worship Leader Magazine

"Winner is one of those gifted teachers who slips in some wisdom along with the sweet stuff on the spoon. We take our medicine from the ancients, the Christian mystics and the scriptures while tasting the sweetness of her narrative."--Christian Century

"Winner grabs God's hiddenness by the shoulders and will not let go. She knows the grace that can only be learned when we stand with Moses, staring into the raging waters, and hear a voice say, 'The LORD will fight for you; you need only to stand still."--Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of The Wisdom of Stability

"Elegantly written . . . eminently readable."--Booklist

"Winner writes thoughtfully and eloquently about finding herself in the middle and accepting her place there."--Shelf Awareness

"In an age when it is much easier to make fun of the church than to love it ... Winner has made the church a main character so honestly drawn that we recognize it ... treasure it and laugh in amazement that God can work with it. Still."--Christian Century

"Lauren Winner's brave, spare, and subtle book is a great gift to the church. She lifts up doubt and absence with enough honesty to reveal the unfinished edges, and the radiance, of faith itself."--Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak

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 this edition

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