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 PrintableVersion Girl meets GodGood for the beachGIRL MEETS GOD on the path to spiritual life Lauren Winner is the daughter of a Jewish father and a lapsed Southern Baptist mother. In Girl meets God she tells how she moved from nominal Jew to enthusiastic orthodoxy and then to Christian faith. Though her parents divorced when she was a teenager, her mother enrolled her in the Sunday School at the local synagogue. Here she learned much of her Jewish heritage, both spiritually and practically, as she became part of the Jewish community. All this discovery by Lauren makes fascinating reading. It’s full of personal experience and incidents which will appeal to lovers of biography, as well as to those who are interested in a personal view of Judaism. But, as her story progresses and she leaves the States to study History at Cambridge, we see her faith in Jesus developing and she is baptised into the Anglican church. This book is an easy read that tells an interesting story as we see Lauren’s insights into these different faith communities. One incident that particularly stands out is when she is challenged to give up reading for Lent, as a compulsive reader this was some challenge, but one that led her to develop her prayer life. But I’ll leave you to discover why she became convinced that using Perrier water was the only option when making communion bread! Though I couldn’t agree with everything she says from a Christian perspective, particularly her need to confess to a priest, it would make an interesting read for the beach or in the garden this summer. Julia Jones,
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