Background
Winner was born to a Jewish father and a Southern Baptist mother, and was raised Jewish.
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Lauren Winner
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She completed her doctoral work at Columbia University in 2006.
Career
She is Assistant Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School. In 2000 she wrote a column asserting that few young evangelicals took a commitment to premarital chastity seriously. She completed a Masters 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 and the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University and volunteers regularly at the Raleigh Correctional Center for Women.
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." A second memoir, Still: Notes on a Mid-faith Crisis, released on January 31, 2012, chronicles her thoughts on God as she descends into doubt and spiritual crisis following the failure of her brief (2003–2009) marriage.
Achievements
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Winner"s fourth book, A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Colonial Virginia is based on her dissertation. Since 2000, Winner"s writing and theology has continued to evolve. Winner was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia on December 17, 2011.
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Religion
Orthodox Judaism