Religion Quotes by Rachel Held Evans

We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

— Rachel Held Evans

We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

— Rachel Held Evans

No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.

— Rachel Held Evans

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

— Rachel Held Evans

“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

“In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.”

— Rachel Held Evans

“Wilhelm Dilthey puts it rather starkly, "Jesus came announcing the Kingdom of God, but what appeared was the church.”

— Rachel Held Evans

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

— Rachel Held Evans

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“I don’t know,” [my father] said, after clearing his throat. “But I know that he loves you.” . . . Twenty years…

— Rachel Held Evans

“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

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

Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

— Rachel Held Evans

What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out, but who it lets in.

— Rachel Held Evans

“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

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

“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

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

“(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

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

“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

“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

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