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Title	:	Girl Meets God
Author	:	Lauren F. Winner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	December 30th 2003 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Religion. Christian. Christianity. Spirituality

Girl Meets God

Lauren F. Winner

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 7085 Users | 638 Reviews

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The child of a Jewish father and a lapsed Southern Baptist mother, Lauren F. Winner chose to become an Orthodox Jew. But even as she was observing Sabbath rituals and studying Jewish law, Lauren was increasingly drawn to Christianity. Courageously leaving what she loved, she eventually converted. In Girl Meets God, this appealing woman takes us through a year in her Christian life as she attempts to reconcile both sides of her religious identity.

Here readers will find a new literary voice: a spiritual seeker who is both an unconventional thinker and a devoted Christian. The twists and turns of Winner’s journey make her the perfect guide to exploring true faith in today’s complicated world.

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Original Title:	Girl Meets God
ISBN:	0812970802 (ISBN13: 9780812970807)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Nominee for Religion (Finalist) (2003)

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I really loved this book. Lauren has a unique perspective on the Christian faith, as learned through Jewish customs and traditions. I love her journey of connecting things that she thought she always knew to things that she was starting to believe. She is an avid reader and very intellectual -- and I think this has once again shown me that you can think critically about the bible and theology and what it still comes down to is faith. I love that she acknowledges that her life before Christianity

I admire the courage it may have taken to write this book, I couldn't write so briefly about my own spiritual journeys, certainly, but I found this book to be mainly trite, self-serving, and underwhelming. Ms. Winner claims at every turn to be over-analytical, and yet she barely scratches the surface of the meaning of her religious promiscuity. She writes at length about the appeal of becoming a "real" orthodox Jew, and it sounds like she just really wants to be part of the club her absentee

Winner's thoughtful, often amusing, ruminations on her "Path to a spiritual life" won me over. That path involved joining, then leaving, orthodox Judaism for Christianity. There's less a juxtaposition than an experiential sampling of one over the other. It leads to some significant insights and refreshingly brutal honesty. But it also points out the weakness of Winner's conclusion. While I enjoyed journeying with her, why she favored Christianity over Judaism (or any other religion for that

Winner was the teenage girl who wanted to believe. She wanted to be on fire for something. Child of two faiths, with parents who had fallen away from their own faith traditions, she decides to immerse herself in Judaism, then because she loves study and is seeking a big, flaming, important all-consuming something to believe in, she converts and becomes Orthodox.And she loves Judaism, and the friends she makes in shul and in studies. They are like a loving, challenging, encouraging family. She

On the whole, I think this book's big problem is that it's a memoir about a spiritual journey, which means it has two very different things to talk about, and both of them get short-changed because she's not a good enough writer to pull it off. The anecdotes about her life and the trajectory of her life feel scattered. She doesn't give me great faith that she could even pull off a straight memoir. Additionally, for someone who is so intellectually oriented, her discussions of religion feel very

Ms. Winner has a unique and intimate voice, and I enjoyed listening to her tell her story. Still, I agree with the other reviewers that she fails to offer any signs of awareness of her journey in a larger context. I have a ton of questions that this book brought up and it disappointed that she didn't seem able to offer any perspective - making this less of a memoir and more of a journal.My questions that I was left with - What does it mean to leave Judaim? Not just in a personal sense, but in