Autobiography of a Bookworm: Notes from my Reading Life

Speaker(s): Lauren Winner
Date: August 1, 2007
Length: 1:07:52
Product ID: RGDL3706P

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This lecture was given as a part of the 2007 Regent College Spring School Evening Public Lecture Series. How does reading impact one's spiritual life? How can reading function as a spiritual discipline? Lauren Winner reflects on the place of reading in her own life-at-large, and in her writing life.

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Lauren Winner Author, speaker, historian, visiting instructor, Duke Divinity School. BA (Columbia College, New York), Mphil (Clare College, University of Cambridge), PhD (Columbia University, New York), Mdiv Cand. (Duke Divinity School). Lauren Winner is the author of three books, Girl Meets God, Mudhouse Sabbath and Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity. Her essays have been included in The Best Christian Writing 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.

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