Rachel Held Evans

“Martha certainly wasn't the first and she won't be the last to dismiss someone else's encounter with God because it didn't fit…

— 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

“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

“The word on the street was that I had two options when it came to caring for my future baby: I could…

— 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

Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

— Rachel Held Evans

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

“Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels” (13:2 NKJV).”

— Rachel Held Evans

“I knew somewhere deep in my bones that a revolution was afoot, that the women of this earth were rising up, and…

— Rachel Held Evans

“I've heard all kinds of explanations from Christian apologists for why the Bible includes such harsh laws about women: that the laws…

— Rachel Held Evans

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are…

— Rachel Held Evans

“So why do our churches feel more like country clubs than AA? Why do we mumble through rote confessions and then conjure…

— Rachel Held Evans

“I’ve watched congregations devote years and years to heated arguments about whether a female missionary should be allowed to share about her…

— Rachel Held Evans

While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in…

— Rachel Held Evans

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize you’ve made too much of it, to remember it doesn’t…

— Rachel Held Evans

“for the writers of the Jewish Scriptures, details concerning the afterlife were murky. Solomon wrote that “the living know that they will…

— Rachel Held Evans

“But I can tell my own story, which studies suggest is an increasingly common one.”

— Rachel Held Evans

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like…

— Rachel Held Evans

“While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in…

— Rachel Held Evans

“Grace has been out of hand for more than two thousand years now. We best get used to it. And”

— Rachel Held Evans

“As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ. And following Christ is something a…

— Rachel Held Evans

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

“If you are looking for verses with which to support slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with…

— Rachel Held Evans

From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner…

— 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