GIRL MEETS GOD on the path to spiritual life
By Lauren Winner
Authentic Media. 306 pages. £7.99
ISBN 1 85078 653 4
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.
