Nov 10, 2015 | The BWIM Book Club, Tuesday Prayers
Blistering feet, hauling heavy bags, getting lost in the middle of nowhere are all terrible experiences that you might expect to encounter during the 500-mile trek on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. As uncomfortable as these experiences may be, Lauren Brewer Bass...
Apr 7, 2012 | Advent/Lent, Being the Church, The BWIM Book Club
The Beginnings of a Book Review by Lydia Pratt Tatum A couple of us Church Daughters are still in school, so our reading outside of our syllabi is rare these days. I say this mostly to place a disclaimer on this premature review. You see, I am one of those Daughters...
Apr 5, 2012 | The BWIM Book Club
A Review of Still by Mandy England Cole When Sue Monk Kidd was experiencing her own time of reshaping, she wrote that, “whenever I’ve managed to find new consciousness and renewals of my work, my relationships and myself, it has been by going down into what...
Apr 4, 2012 | Advent/Lent, Being the Church, The BWIM Book Club
A Review of Still by Jennifer Harris Dault There are some books whose stories have you racing through pages, on the back of a prized horse that is determined to beat his competitors. Lauren Winner’s Still is not one of those books. It requires soaking, steeping,...
Apr 2, 2012 | The BWIM Book Club
A Review of Still by Stacy Sergent An almost-memoir from an almost-saint is the gift Lauren Winner offers us in Still. Those first pulled into Winner’s story through her conversion memoir, Girl Meets God, may be frustrated with the looser structure of...
Jul 19, 2011 | Great Women in History, The BWIM Book Club
“It is a small thing to be judged of a man’s judgement. It is good to know that we are judged by God.” As I began my graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I stumbled across the quotation above and, when I did, it gave me pause. The...
