What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance. — 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
“It’s the oldest religious shortcut in the book: the easiest way to make oneself righteous is to make someone else a sinner.” — 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
No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out, but who it lets in. — 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
“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
“For the children of Israel, the essence of religion was experiencing God to the fullest during this lifetime, not merely preparing for… — 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
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
“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
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
“(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
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
“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
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
“Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with… — 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
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
“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
“I don’t know,” [my father] said, after clearing his throat. “But I know that he loves you.” . . . Twenty years… — 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
“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
We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master. — 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
“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
“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
When [Jesus] wanted fully to explain what his forthcoming death was all about He didn't give a theory. He didn't even give… — 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
![“I don’t know,” [my father] said, after clearing his throat. “But I know that he loves you.” . . . Twenty years later, I’m convinced it is the most important thing my father ever told me. . . . I used to think that the measure of true faith is certainty. Doubt, ambiguity, nuance, uncertainty…” quote by Rachel Held Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a12/rachel-held-evans-2876_doubt_i-don-t-know-my-father-said-after-cleari_2734372.jpg)
![“When [Jesus] wanted fully to explain what his forthcoming death was all about He didn't give a theory. He didn't even give them a set of Scriptural texts. He gave them a meal.” quote by Rachel Held Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ee7/rachel-held-evans-2876_death_when-jesus-wanted-fully-to-explain-what_723058.jpg)
