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10 Facts About Lauren Winner

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Lauren Frances Winner was born on 1976 and is an American historian, scholar of religion, and Episcopal priest.

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Lauren Winner is Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School.

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Lauren Winner was born to a Jewish father and a Southern Baptist mother, and was raised Jewish.

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Lauren Winner converted to Orthodox Judaism in her freshman year at Columbia University, and then to Christianity while doing her master's degree at Cambridge University, and one of her most popular books, Mudhouse Sabbath, is about becoming a Christian while appreciating the Jewishness of historical Christian faith.

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Lauren Winner completed her doctoral work at Columbia University in 2006.

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Lauren Winner has worked as a book editor of Beliefnet and senior editor of Christianity Today.

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Since 2000, Lauren Winner's writing and theology has continued to evolve.

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Lauren Winner completed a Master of Divinity degree at Duke University in 2007.

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Lauren Winner has served as a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University and the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University and volunteers regularly at the Raleigh Correctional Center for Women.

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Lauren Winner was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia on December 17,2011.