Please join us Rav Steven on Sunday evening, June 15th in the Main Sanctuary, for a talk with author and Bayit member, Kelsey Osgood to discuss her new book titled Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion.

Kelsey Osgood is the author of How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia, which was chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program, and Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion. Her work has appeared online or in print at The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper's, and the New Yorker, among other outlets.

In GODSTRUCK: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversation, journalist and author Kelsey Osgood profiles six other contemporary converts charting independent paths into organized religion and wrestling with the complexities of their choices. Driven by Osgood's profound curiosity and intimate reporting, GODSTURCK is a provocative, insightful, and refreshingly nuanced exploration of both the joys and the challenges of faith.   

"I love this beautifully written, thoughtful, sensitive, prismatic book. Recursive, gracious, intelligent, and heartfelt, like Rachel Aviv meets C.S. Lewis in the grand tradition of Elaine Pagels and Abraham Joshua Heschel, it’s a necessary and vital reminder that real open-mindedness can take many unpredictable forms. Essential reading for the curious and the skeptical alike.” —Elisa Albert, author of The Snarling Girl and Other Essays.

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