“Still water reveals depth--as does this account of ordinary life and what lies beneath.” - Philip Yancey, author of What Good Is God?
“Still is about losing the connection to God, or Jesus, and then getting that connection back.” - Washington Post
“Not for the faint-hearted, Winner’s book not only undresses and confronts doubt, but imparts new courage to trust God through it.” - Worship Leader Magazine
“Despite deep pain and doubt, Winner relentlessly searches God’s mysteries, seeking peace and authenticity in her faith. Her spiritual memoir is unblinking, credible, and compelling.” - Christianity Today (Christianity Today 2013 Book Award, Spirituality)
“Lauren Winner’s prose is insightful, honest and always right on point. In each best-selling book, the Duke professor reclaims previously cliché-laden topics and has developed a new vocabulary for a generation fed up with conventional answers.” - Relevant Magazine
“The book is made to pour over again and again. You’ll fill the pages with underlines, the margins with notes. Each short chapter is loaded with insights that don’t so much build on one another as weave a rich tapestry of possibilities in the midst of a spiritual desert.” - Relevant Magazine
“Compulsively readable, direct yet never indiscreet, Winner’s book shows intelligence and verve as it seriously addresses the spiritual crises around God’s apparent absence or silence, as faced by many. A must-have for Winner’s readers and fans of Anne Lamott.” - Library Journal (starred review)
“In present-tense, lyrical essays . . . [Winner] explores her emotional landscape as she struggles to move beyond the depression that plagues her following her mother’s death and her own divorce. Examining feelings of grief, failure, and doubt . . . Winner brings poetic nuances to her exquisitely crafted prose.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Elegantly written . . . eminently readable.” - Booklist
“Winner is one of those gifted teachers who slips in some wisdom along with the sweet stuff on the spoon. We take our medicine from the ancients, the Christian mystics and the scriptures while tasting the sweetness of her narrative.” - Christian Century
“In an age when it is much easier to make fun of the church than to love it ... Winner has made the church a main character so honestly drawn that we recognize it ... treasure it and laugh in amazement that God can work with it. Still.” - Christian Century
“Winner grabs God’s hiddenness by the shoulders and will not let go. She knows the grace that can only be learned when we stand with Moses, staring into the raging waters, and hear a voice say, ‘The LORD will fight for you; you need only to stand still.” - Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of The Wisdom of Stability
“Titles to pick up now... Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis: insights on spiritual uncertainty from a devout Christian convert.” - O, the Oprah Magazine
“Winner writes thoughtfully and eloquently about finding herself in the middle and accepting her place there.” - Shelf Awareness
“Soft and vulnerable, yet blunt and veracious . . . If you’re a lover of books like Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott or any other writers who are not afraid to unveil their imperfections in hopes of finding kindred spirits, then take this walk with Winner.” - Beliefnet
“Winner possesses a flair for narrative and a willingness to use her life’s story as an easel. . . . Like Anne Lamott (Traveling Mercies), or Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love), Winner is at her best spinning small but hopeful meditations on life’s imperfections.” - The Washington Post
“Still grasps for faith in a Middle space and discovers a stranger, bigger and more faithful God than we expected.” - Relevant Magazine
“There is a raw openness to Lauren Winner’s writing that is as breath-taking as it is rugged and beautiful. I am always a bit in awe of it, in fact. But Still is more than that. Still is as persuasive and credible a testimony to the constancy of Jesus in the midst of a believer’s estrangement as I have ever read or ever hope to read; and I am completely in awe of that.” - Phyllis Tickle, author, The Great Emergence
“Halfway through Still I realized that a lot of spiritual books—most, maybe—are written during a mid-faith crisis. Too few admit it. But Winner grabs God’s hiddenness by the shoulders and will not let go. She knows the grace that can only be learned when we stand with Moses, staring into the raging waters, and hear a voice say, ‘The LORD will fight for you; you need only to stand still.” - Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of The Wisdom of Stability
“It takes courage to put your soul through an x-ray and let the world see the breaks, the tears, the strains, the scars. Still, this is my favorite of her books yet.” - Brian McLaren, author of Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words
“A courageous tour into the murky darkness of ...a faith unraveling before our eyes. Still persists into a gentle version of the gospel.” - Scot McKnight, Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University
“It is a relief to find a book on the life of faith that is honest about the pain of emptiness and the fear of losing all that orients your life. Nothing glib here and nothing superhuman: just putting one foot in front of the other with whatever trust you can manage, because there is no other way to go.” - Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
“An unusually painful story, told with rare honesty by an unusually gifted writer.” - N.T. Wright, author of Simply Jesus
“Anyone committed to truly examining the shape of personal faith, unfolding over the years in a broken world, should sense a fruitful opportunity, if not a solemn obligation, to expound at length…[Winner] probes these depths as deftly and eloquently as anyone writing today… An instant spiritual classic.” - Christianity Today
“[A] provocative memoir . . . an open, honest contemplation of a spiritual impasse.” - Kirkus Reviews
“Lauren Winner’s brave, spare, and subtle book is a great gift to the church. She lifts up doubt and absence with enough honesty to reveal the unfinished edges, and the radiance, of faith itself.” - Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak