Lauren Winner
American writer
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(m. 2003; div. 2009)- History
- religious studies
Lauren Frances Winner (born 1976)[1][2] is an American historian, scholar of religion, and Episcopal priest. She is Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School.[3] Winner writes and lectures on Christian practice, the history of Christianity in America, and Jewish–Christian relations.[4]
Winner was born to a Jewish father and a Southern Baptist mother, and was raised Jewish.[5] She converted to Orthodox Judaism in her freshman year at Columbia University,[6] and then to Christianity while doing her master's degree at Cambridge University, and one of her most popular books, Mudhouse Sabbath, is about becoming a Christian while appreciating the Jewishness of historical Christian faith. She completed her doctoral work at Columbia University in 2006.[7] Winner's fourth book, A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Colonial Virginia is based on her dissertation.[8]
Winner has worked as a book editor of Beliefnet[9] and senior editor of Christianity Today. In 2000 she wrote a column asserting that few young evangelicals took a commitment to premarital chastity seriously, using the phrase "evangelical whores".[10] Julia Duin suggests that Winner was a "fairly recent convert" at the time, and "the evangelical response to Winner was livid."[11] Duin goes on to relate that "Christianity Today quickly demoted her to a staff writer spot when people started asking why such a recent convert in her early twenties and still in grad school had managed to attain senior writer status at such a revered publication."[11]
Since 2000, Winner's writing and theology has continued to evolve. She completed a Master of Divinity degree at Duke University in 2007. She has served as a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University[7] and the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University[12] and volunteers regularly at the Raleigh Correctional Center for Women.[13]
Her memoir, Girl Meets God has been described as "a passionate and thoroughly engaging account of a continuing spiritual journey within two profoundly different faiths."[14] A second memoir, Still: Notes on a Mid-faith Crisis, released on January 31, 2012,[15] chronicles her thoughts on God as she descends into doubt and spiritual crisis following the failure of her brief (2003–2009) marriage.[16] Christianity Today calls Still "an instant spiritual classic."[17] Her other books include Mudhouse Sabbath; Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity; and Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God (2016).
Winner was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia on December 17, 2011.[18]
References
- ^ Baumann, Paul (24 November 2002). "A puzzling memoir about a religious conversion". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ Shimron, Yonat (16 February 2012). "Author tackles doubt, divorce and the priesthood". USA Today. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ "Lauren Winner". Duke Divinity School. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- ^ "50 Women You Should Know". Christianity Today. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
- ^ "Lauren Winner". www.laurenwinner.net. Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
- ^ a b "Current Fellows in the Study of Religion and Religious History for 2007-2008". Princeton University. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ Spangler, Jewel L. (2011). "A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia by Lauren F. Winner". The American Historical Review. 116 (5). The American Historical Association: 1483–4. doi:10.1086/ahr.116.5.1483. ISSN 1937-5239.
- ^ "Bio". Retrieved 11 December 2010. Official website.
- ^ Winner, Lauren F. "Sex and the Single Evangelical". Beliefnet. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- ^ a b Duin, Julia (2008). Quitting Church: Why the Faithful are Fleeing and What to Do about It. Grand Rapids: Baker Books. p. 34.
- ^ "Institute of Sacred Music". Yale.edu. Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ "Lauren F. Winner". Sojourners. 16 February 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ Lindbergh, Reeve (15 December 2002). "Born Again . . . and Again". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.harpercollinscatalogs.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Lauren Winner". Calvin College. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- ^ "Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis". HarperCollins AUS. Archived from the original on 30 December 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
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