"I thought that those feelings would just endure, and that those feelings would sort of sustain me in the life of faith forever. "In my life, I had this dramatic conversion to Christianity and it had lots of intense emotions," she says. She tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz that nothing could have prepared her for what amounted to a falling out with God. Winner, an ordained Episcopal priest who teaches Christian spirituality at Duke University, says it happened around the time her mother died and her marriage collapsed. In Winner's new book, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, she writes about a spiritual crisis. Her surprising conversion is the subject of her first memoir, the bestseller Girl Meets God. Theologian Lauren Winner was 21 when she became a Christian.Īlthough she was raised in a Jewish household and had converted to Orthodox Judaism, she says she felt drawn to Christianity. Lauren Winner is the author of Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity and the memoir Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life.
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