“And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of… — Lauren F. Winner Belief Copy Share Image
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 Doubt Copy Share Image
“It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done… — Lauren F. Winner Prayer Copy Share Image
The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little… — Lauren F. Winner Church Copy Share Image
My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down. — Lauren F. Winner Bible Copy Share Image
“No, no, I'm not one of them. I'm one of you. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, but I also wear… — Lauren F. Winner Catholic Copy Share Image
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him. — Lauren F. Winner Giving Copy Share Image
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is… — Lauren F. Winner Character Copy Share Image
“This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It… — Lauren F. Winner Goodness Copy Share Image
“Augustine wrote that God sometimes does not give us what we ask in prayer. "Of His bounty, the Lord often grants not… — Lauren F. Winner Answers to prayer Copy Share Image
“[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… — Lauren F. Winner God Hiddenness Copy Share Image
“As I watch my priest lay the communion table for the gathered believers, I remember why eating attentively is worth all the… — Lauren F. Winner Communion Copy Share Image
I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I… — Lauren F. Winner Annoyed Copy Share Image
“The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to want to… — Lauren F. Winner Change Copy Share Image
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His… — Lauren F. Winner Alliteration 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… — Lauren F. Winner Children Copy Share Image
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 Doubt Copy Share Image
The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I… — Lauren F. Winner Bored Copy Share Image
“In the false American imagination, West Virginia is a joke or else it's a charity case; but more than anything it is… — Lauren F. Winner Creativity Copy Share Image
“A few days before the confirmation service, she told her father—the pastor of the church—that she wasn't sure she could go through… — Lauren F. Winner Belief Copy Share Image
“Being born a human was not the first time God made Himself small so that we could have access to Him. First… — Lauren F. Winner First time Copy Share Image
“Here is the thing about God. He is so big and so perfect that we can't really understand Him. We can't possess… — Lauren F. Winner God Copy Share Image
“People think Judaism and Christianity are radically different from one another, and that the difference is straightforward. But on Ascension Day, I… — Lauren F. Winner Christianity Copy Share Image
“All throughout Torah, we find people looking for God, and not finding God, because God doesn't often conform to our expectations. God… — Lauren F. Winner Around the world Copy Share Image
I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze. — Lauren F. Winner Doubt Copy Share Image
“I suspect the next 10 years will be years of turmoil and hardship the globe over, and with that will come a… — Lauren F. Winner American-christianity Copy Share Image
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an… — Lauren F. Winner Abstract Copy Share Image
“...but that is how the clues God leaves sometimes work. Sometimes nothing comes of them. Sometimes, as in a great novel, you… — Lauren F. Winner Clues Copy Share Image
“The anxious heart, in its flailings, loses its hold on whatever grace God has bestowed upon it, and is sapped of the… — Lauren F. Winner Anxiety Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you… — Lauren F. Winner Books Copy Share Image
“It means the God who worries about our sins is not only God the judge, but also God the caretaker. He worries… — Lauren F. Winner God Copy Share Image
“There is an elaborate North African mezuzah case that dates to sometime in the 1700s, and by the nineteenth century Jews in… — Lauren F. Winner Eastern europe Copy Share Image
“Some days, I believe the Christian story even more than I believe in Australia. After all, I have never been to Australia,… — Lauren F. Winner Belief Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Analysis Copy Share Image
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