(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.

Rachel Held Evans

Tags: christianity god faith evolution mystery change-the-world orthodoxy



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God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

Rachel Held Evans

Tags: compassion christianity god



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What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Rachel Held Evans

Tags: art poetry christianity god



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Invariably, I will be referred to Gleason Archer's massive Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, a heavy volume that seeks to provide the reader with sound explanations for every conceivable puzzle found within the Bible - from whether God approved of Rahab's lie, to where Cain got his wife. (Note to well-meaning apologists: it's not always the best idea to present a skeptic with a five-hundred-page book listing hundreds of apparent contradictions in Scripture when the skeptic didn't even know that half of them existed before you recommended it.)

Rachel Held Evans

Tags: christianity bible spirituality answers skeptics



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When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

Rachel Held Evans

Tags: christianity bible spirituality fundamentalism worldview



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My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

Rachel Held Evans

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You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

Rachel Held Evans

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My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)

Rachel Held Evans

Tags: god faith fundamentalism



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...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 ahead of time.

Rachel Held Evans

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As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.

Rachel Held Evans

Tags: christianity spirituality christian feminist womanhood



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