Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question: how did antebellum Protestants parse capitalism? For anyone who seeks to understand the political economy… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him. — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It tells us… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to want to do the… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“...but that is how the clues God leaves sometimes work. Sometimes nothing comes of them. Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“No, no, I'm not one of them. I'm one of you. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, but I also wear fishnet stockings… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“Here is the thing about God. He is so big and so perfect that we can't really understand Him. We can't possess Him, or… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“People think Judaism and Christianity are radically different from one another, and that the difference is straightforward. But on Ascension Day, I am struck… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“[T]hat finally is the questions, that is the anguish--to abide in God's hiddenness is one thing, to abide in God's absence is altogether something… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
“It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share
