Bible: A Book Like No Other

Lauren Winner is the presenter of the 6th session of Animate: Faith, entitled "Bible: A Book Like No Other."

Lauren broke onto the Christian scene with her 2002 book, Girl Meets God, in which she chronicles her conversion first to Orthodox Judaism, then to Christianity. She is an assistant professor of Christian spirituality at Duke Divinity School, and a priest associate at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Durham, North Carolina.

She has appeared on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Books and Culture, and Christianity Today.

Five fast facts

1. Lives in Durham, North Carolina
2. Can usually be found with a novel in hand
3. Owns 30 pairs of cat-eye glasses
4. Fellow at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University
5. Has a BA from Columbia University, an MPhil from Cambridge University, an MDiv from Duke Divinity School, and a PhD in history from Columbia University

(Bio from: http://wearesparkhouse.org/adults/animate/faith/voices/lauren/)

Visit Lauren Winner's own website here: http://laurenwinner.net/