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
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
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
“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
“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
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 Antebellum 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
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
“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