Rest

by Lauren F. Winner

Mud House RestLoren Winner, a prominent writer and current Duke University professor, was an orthodox Jew in Columbia University and four years later he was converted to Christianity at Cambridge University in England. Her "Mudhouse Hospice", which traced God through two conversions, is an essay in which she wrote down the experience of practicing and exploring the Jewish tradition in daily life. The authors insight, though not well known to Christians, is brilliant in his persuasive presentation of the Bible-based spiritual training. While the Sabbath, the wedding, and the funeral and prayer, as well as the Jews and Christians, Significantly different rituals are introduced in this book. The more enriched, enriched, and energetic practices of Christianity that are taught in Judaism can bring glad realization that we can walk with God even in the ordinary routines of eating, working, resting, dating, aging, mourning, and celebrating give.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2011

About the author

Lauren F. Winner is the author of numerous books, including Girl Meets God and Mudhouse Sabbath. Her study A Cheerful & Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia was published in the fall of 2010 by Yale University Press. She has appeared on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Books and Culture, and Christianity Today. Winner has degrees from Duke, Columbia, and Cambridge universities, and holds a Ph.D. in history. The former book editor for Beliefnet, Lauren teaches at Duke Divinity School, and lives in Durham, North Carolina. Lauren travels extensively to lecture and teach. During the academic year of 2007-2008, she was a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, and during the academic year of 2010-2011, she was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. When she’s home, you can usually find her curled up, on her couch or screen porch, with a good novel.