GIRL MEETS GOD

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Girl Meets God, A Memoir, by Lauren F. Winner is the second of two Winner books that I have read. The first was Real Sex. Girl Meets God is a passionate and thoroughly engaging account of a continuing spiritual journey within two profoundly different faiths.

Lauren Winner had a Jewish father and a lapsed Southern Baptist mother. Lauren 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.

This may not be a good book to wind down your summer reading with. I suggest you wait until the winter months and then curl up with it for an hour or two. Of course, some of you will never want to spend time with a book like this. It is just not your “cup of tea.” I thoroughly enjoyed it, but that doesn’t mean that you will.