The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

- Lauren F. Winner

There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight…

- Lauren F. Winner

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

- Lauren F. Winner

God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite…

- Lauren F. Winner

Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a wo…

- Lauren F. Winner

The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does not si…

- Lauren F. Winner

The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way…

- Lauren F. Winner

I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

- Lauren F. Winner

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

- Lauren F. Winner