Lauren F. Winner

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• I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could… Annoyed
• Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I… Alone
• I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about… Always Fundamentally
• The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way.… Abstract
• God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And… All
• The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right. Bit
• In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him. Both
• My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down. Down
• 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:… Antebellum
• Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. Days
• Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along. All
• I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze. Doubt
• There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth… Amazingly
• The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does… Benefit
• The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember,… All

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