“Seems to me that for you, evangelicalism is like the boyfriend you broke up with two years ago, but whose Facebook page… — 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
We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and… — 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… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“(Fun fact: more Christians were martyred by one another in the decades after the Reformation than were martyred by the Roman Empire.6)” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Wilhelm Dilthey puts it rather starkly, "Jesus came announcing the Kingdom of God, but what appeared was the church.” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“I played my role as the good Christian girl and spared everyone the drama of an argument. But that decision to remain… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“It is hard for us to recognize it now, but Peter and Paul were introducing the first Christian family to an entirely… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in… — 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
One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering… — 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… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
But the gospel doesn't need a coalition devoted to keeping the wrong people out. It needs a family of sinners, saved by… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Turns out, I wasn't the only one struggling with doubt. I wasn't the only one questioning my church's position on homosexuality and… — 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
“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
Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity. We're looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. Like every generation before ours… — 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
“It’s strange that Christians so rarely talk about failure when we claim to follow a guy whose three-year ministry was cut short… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“It seems that a whole lot of people, both Christians and non-Christians, are under the impression that you can’t be a Christian… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Instead I understood evangelical to be an adjective synonymous with “real” or “authentic.” There were Christians, and then there were evangelical Christians… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“The Christian versions of the household codes were clearly progressive for their time, but does that mean they have the last word,… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“And what they find is when they bring their pain or their doubt or their uncomfortable truth to church, someone immediately grabs… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“We Christians don’t get to send our lives through the rinse cycle before showing up to church. We come as we are—no… — 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
