{"product_id":"still-notes-on-a-midfaith-crisis-isbn-9780061768286","title":"Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing up her highly acclaimed \u003cem\u003eGirl Meets God\u003c\/em\u003e, author Lauren F. Winner has written an engrossing reflection of literary grace and spiritual wisdom with S\u003cem\u003etill: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she lives through a failed marriage and the loss of her mother, Winner finds her Christian faith slipping away. Through reading religious works and tomes and being counseled by leaders of the church, she learns she must find the courage to trust in God in order to to find His presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElegantly written and profound, \u003cem\u003eStill\u003c\/em\u003e offers reflections on how murky and gray the spiritual life can be while, at the same time, shows us how to see the light we do encounter more clearly.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eLauren F. Winner, author of thecritically acclaimed memoir \u003cem\u003eGirl MeetsGod\u003c\/em\u003e, here describes how the loss ofher mother and the collapse of hermarriage slam her into a wall of doubt.Witty, relatable, and fiercely honest,Winner lays bare her experience ofwhat she calls the \"middle stage\" ofthe spiritual life. In elegant and spareprose, she explores why—in themidst of the overwhelming anxiety,loneliness, and boredom of her deepestquestioning about where (or if) Godis—the Christian story still explainsher better than any other story she'sever known and how she arrived ata deeper and better place. \u003cem\u003eStill\u003c\/em\u003e is anabsorbing meditation combiningliterary grace with spiritual wisdom.It is sure to provide comfort and hopeto all spiritual travelers.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Still water reveals depth--as does this account of ordinary life and what lies beneath.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Yancey, author of What Good Is God?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStill\u003c\/i\u003e is about losing the connection to God, or Jesus, and then getting that connection back.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Not for the faint-hearted, Winner’s book not only undresses and confronts doubt, but imparts new courage to trust God through it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorship Leader Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Despite deep pain and doubt, Winner relentlessly searches God’s mysteries, seeking peace and authenticity in her faith. Her spiritual memoir is unblinking, credible, and compelling.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today (Christianity Today 2013 Book Award, Spirituality)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lauren Winner’s prose is insightful, honest and always right on point. In each best-selling book, the Duke professor reclaims previously cliché-laden topics and has developed a new vocabulary for a generation fed up with conventional answers.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRelevant Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book is made to pour over again and again. You’ll fill the pages with underlines, the margins with notes. Each short chapter is loaded with insights that don’t so much build on one another as weave a rich tapestry of possibilities in the midst of a spiritual desert.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRelevant Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compulsively readable, direct yet never indiscreet, Winner’s book shows intelligence and verve as it seriously addresses the spiritual crises around God’s apparent absence or silence, as faced by many. A must-have for Winner’s readers and fans of Anne Lamott.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In present-tense, lyrical essays . . . [Winner] explores her emotional landscape as she struggles to move beyond the depression that plagues her following her mother’s death and her own divorce. Examining feelings of grief, failure, and doubt  . . . Winner brings poetic nuances to her exquisitely crafted prose.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Elegantly written . . . eminently readable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winner is one of those gifted teachers who slips in some wisdom along with the sweet stuff on the spoon. We take our medicine from the ancients, the Christian mystics and the scriptures while tasting the sweetness of her narrative.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In an age when it is much easier to make fun of the church than to love it ... Winner has made the church a main character so honestly drawn that we recognize it ... treasure it and laugh in amazement that God can work with it. Still.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winner grabs God’s hiddenness by the shoulders and will not let go. She knows the grace that can only be learned when we stand with Moses, staring into the raging waters, and hear a voice say, ‘The LORD will fight for you; you need only to stand still.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of The Wisdom of Stability\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Titles to pick up now... \u003ci\u003eStill: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e: insights on spiritual uncertainty from a devout Christian convert.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winner writes thoughtfully and eloquently about finding herself in the middle and accepting her place there.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Soft and vulnerable, yet blunt and veracious . . . If you’re a lover of books like \u003ci\u003eTraveling Mercies\u003c\/i\u003e by Anne Lamott or any other writers who are not afraid to unveil their imperfections in hopes of finding kindred spirits, then take this walk with Winner.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeliefnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winner possesses a flair for narrative and a willingness to use her life’s story as an easel. . . . Like Anne Lamott (\u003ci\u003eTraveling Mercies\u003c\/i\u003e), or Elizabeth Gilbert (\u003ci\u003eEat, Pray, Love\u003c\/i\u003e), Winner is at her best spinning small but hopeful meditations on life’s imperfections.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStill\u003c\/i\u003e grasps for faith in a Middle space and discovers a stranger, bigger and more faithful God than we expected.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRelevant Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is a raw openness to Lauren Winner’s writing that is as breath-taking as it is rugged and beautiful. I am always a bit in awe of it, in fact. But \u003ci\u003eStill\u003c\/i\u003e is more than that. \u003ci\u003eStill\u003c\/i\u003e is as persuasive and credible a testimony to the constancy of Jesus in the midst of a believer’s estrangement as I have ever read or ever hope to read; and I am completely in awe of that.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhyllis Tickle, author, The Great Emergence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Halfway through \u003ci\u003eStill\u003c\/i\u003e I realized that a lot of spiritual books—most, maybe—are written during a mid-faith crisis. Too few admit it. But Winner grabs God’s hiddenness by the shoulders and will not let go. She knows the grace that can only be learned when we stand with Moses, staring into the raging waters, and hear a voice say, ‘The LORD will fight for you; you need only to stand still.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of The Wisdom of Stability\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It takes courage to put your soul through an x-ray and let the world see the breaks, the tears, the strains, the scars. Still, this is my favorite of her books yet.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrian McLaren, author of Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A courageous tour into the murky darkness of ...a faith unraveling before our eyes. \u003ci\u003eStill\u003c\/i\u003e persists into a gentle version of the gospel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScot McKnight, Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is a relief to find a book on the life of faith that is honest about the pain of emptiness and the fear of losing all that orients your life. Nothing glib here and nothing superhuman: just putting one foot in front of the other with whatever trust you can manage, because there is no other way to go.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An unusually painful story, told with rare honesty by an unusually gifted writer.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eN.T. 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