(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 EvansTag: christianity god faith evolution mystery change-the-world orthodoxy
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 EvansTag: compassion christianity god
What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
Rachel Held EvansTag: art poetry christianity god
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 EvansTag: christianity bible spirituality answers skeptics
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 EvansTag: christianity bible spirituality fundamentalism worldview
My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.
Rachel Held EvansTag: bible spirituality interpretation inerrancy
You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.
Rachel Held EvansTag: jesus spirituality
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 EvansTag: god faith fundamentalism
...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 EvansAs a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.
Rachel Held EvansTag: christianity spirituality christian feminist womanhood
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