“ According to the Talmud, loshon hara kills three people: the one who speaks it, the one who hears it, and the one about whom it is told. 'Kill' may strike the modern reader as a bit hyperbolic, but wh… Rachel Held Evans
“ Mine is a stubborn and recalcitrant faith. It's all elbows and motion and kicked-up dust, like cartoon characters locked in a cloudy brawl. I'm still early in my journey, but I suspect it will go on l… Rachel Held Evans
“ Madeleine L’Engle said, the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. 58 I think the same is true for churches. Rachel Held Evans
“ It is a fundamental misunderstanding of Genesis, wrote Peter Enns, to expect it to answer questions generated by a modern worldview, such as whether the days were literal or figurative, or whether the… Rachel Held Evans
“ As Barbara Brown Taylor puts it, in an age of information overload . . . the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives… Rachel Held Evans
“ To be a priest, writes Barbara Brown Taylor, is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.38 Rachel Held Evans
“ Madeleine L’Engle said, the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.58 I think the same is true for churches. Each one stays with us, even after we’ve lef… Rachel Held Evans
“ As Brené Brown puts it, I went to church thinking it would be like an epidural, that it would take the pain away . . . But church isn’t like an epidural; it’s like a midwife . . . I thought faith woul… Rachel Held Evans
“ With all the conceptual truths in the universe at his disposal, writes Barbara Brown Taylor, [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when he was gone. Instead, he gave them concret… Rachel Held Evans
“ With the best of intentions, the generation before mine worked diligently to prepare their children to make an intelligent case for Christianity. We were constantly reminded of the superiority of our… 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 life; each subject to the impossible expectations and cruel projections of… 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
“ As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ. Rachel Held Evans
“ To Jesus, "by faith alone" did not mean "by belief alone." To Jesus, faith was invariably linked to obedience. Rachel Held Evans
“ Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling the truth, which is that most of us are a frightening mix of good and evil, sin… 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 of Christmas. Who got up at 4 a.m. to put the ham in the oven? A woman. . . . Who… Rachel Held Evans
“ There is nothing nominal or lukewarm or indifferent about standing in this hurricane of questions every day and staring each one down until you've mustered all the bravery and fortitude and trust it t… Rachel Held Evans
“ I would argue that healthy doubt (questioning one's beliefs) is perhaps the best defense against unhealthy doubt (questioning God). When we know how to make a distinction between our ideas about God a… Rachel Held Evans
“ But what might a woman say about church as she? What might a woman say about the church as body and bride? Perhaps she would speak of the way a regular body moves through the world—always changing, ne… 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 a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation. Rachel Held Evans
