What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection. — 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
Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology,… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something.… — 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
But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a… — 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
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
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
“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
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