We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people. — 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
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
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
When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty… — 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
Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this… — 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
The Proverbs 31 woman is a star not because of what she does but how she does it—with valor. So do your… — 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
