Surprised by God How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion

Surprised by God is the memoir of a young woman's spiritual awakening and eventual path to the rabbinate. It's a postdotcom, third-wave, punk-rock Seven Storey Mountainthe story of integrating life on the edge of the twenty-first century into the discipline of traditional Judaism without sacrificing either. It's also an unflinchingly honest guide to the kind of work that goes into developing a spiritual practice in today's worldand why, perhaps, doing this in today's world requires more work than it ever has.

Danya Ruttenberg is the editor of Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism, and of a forthcoming book on Judaism and sexuality. She has been published in a wide variety of books and periodicals, including Encyclopedia Judaica, Best Jewish Writing 2002, the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Bitchfest, and The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism. A contributing editor to both Lilit and Women in Judaism, Ruttenberg will be receiving rabbinic ordination from the Zeigler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles in May 2008.