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by Lauren F. Winner

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b 2012 Publishers Weekly Selected "Religious Excellence Books"
Christianity Today selected "Outstanding Books in Spirituality" b

"Journey to God" Lauren Winner, who has looked back beautifully on the spiritual journey of the world, falls into a barrier of doubt and spiritual despair, experiencing unexpected loss and "The passion of conversion has gone somewhere .... Also slowly cooled down. Anxiety began to sprout in the intimacy with God, which was thick in the ages, and the compulsion to live according to the call of the gospel weakened. "...

Paperback

Published January 30, 2015

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.