“I suppose that the moral of this story is that trying to copy another woman, even a woman from the Bible, is… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Invariably, I will be referred to Gleason Archer's massive Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, a heavy volume that seeks to provide the reader… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“When you stop trying to force the Bible to be something it's not--static, perspicacious, certain, absolute--then you're free to revel in what… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“It has become cliche to talk about faith as a journey, and yet the metaphor holds. Scripture doesn't speak of people who… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Believers should be wary of overzealous attempts to prescribe “biblical sex,” when sex—like beauty and like God—remains shaded with mystery. Paul likened… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“A calling, on the other hand, when rooted deep in the soil of one’s soul, transcends roles. And I believe that my… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“If Christians have learned anything from our rocky two-thousand-year theological history, it’s that we make the most beautiful things ugly when we… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“The recurring choice-between faith and science, Christianity and feminism, the Bible and historical criticism, doctrine and compassion-kept tripping me up like roots… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“for the writers of the Jewish Scriptures, details concerning the afterlife were murky. Solomon wrote that “the living know that they will… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“In fact, it seems that most of the Bible's instructions regarding modesty find their context in warnings about materialism, not sexuality . . .” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“So what did God say to me in the silence that morning? I’m not sure, but I think God said something like, Don’t try… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Some rabbis say that, at birth, we are each tied to God with a string, and that every time we sin, the string breaks.… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“My robust lexicon notwithstanding, I struggle to find the right words to describe just how much I despise, hate, abhor, revile, detest and categorically… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“I don’t know for sure, but I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service, our actions… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Cynicism may seem a mild transgression, but it is a patient predator that suffocates hope, slowly, over many years,” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
