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New York Times Bestseller "A touching series of essays in which
Evans, with Chu's invisible pen, explores how one might find a path
forward in Christianity beyond conservative evangelicalism" -Eliza
Griswold, The New Yorker "Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new
book captures her brave outlook. . . . I could not help but notice
the poetry in Evans's prose. . . . What readers will find in these
pages was someone deeply human: funny, irreverent, curious, wise,
forgiving, nonjudgmental." -Maggie Smith, The Washington Post A
collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose
reflections on faith and life continue to encourage, challenge, and
influence. Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her
theologically astute, profoundly honest, and beautifully personal
books, which have guided, instructed, edified, and shaped
Christians as they seek to live out a just and loving faith. At the
time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel was working on a new book
about wholeheartedness. With the help of her close friend and
author Jeff Chu, that work-in-progress has been woven together with
some of her other unpublished writings into a rich collection of
essays that ask candid questions about the stories we've been
told-and the stories we tell-about our faith, our selves, and our
world. This book is for the doubter and the dreamer, the seeker and
the sojourner, those who long for a sense of spiritual wholeness as
well as those who have been hurt by the Church but can't seem to
let go of the story of Jesus. Through theological reflection and
personal recollection, Rachel wrestles with God's grace and love,
looks unsparingly at what the Church is and does, and explores
universal human questions about becoming and belonging. An
unforgettable, moving, and intimate book.
Gender roles have been debated for centuries, and now Sarah Bessey
offers a clarion freedom call for all who want to realize their
giftedness and potential in the kingdom of God. Through a
thoughtful review of biblical teaching and church practices, Bessey
shares how following Jesus made a feminist out of her.
One Woman's Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn't a
science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do
people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held
Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to
better understand what the Bible is and how it is meant to be read.
What she discovered changed her-and it will change you too. Drawing
on the best in recent scholarship and using her well-honed literary
expertise, Evans examines some of our favorite Bible stories and
possible interpretations, retelling them through memoir, original
poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay.
Undaunted by the Bible's most difficult passages, Evans wrestles
through the process of doubting, imagining, and debating
Scripture's mysteries. The Bible, she discovers, is not a static
work but is a living, breathing, captivating, and confounding book
that is able to equip us to join God's loving and redemptive work
in the world.
Are you struggling to connect with your church community? Do you
find yourself questioning the core beliefs that you once held dear?
Searching for Sunday, from New York Times bestselling author Rachel
Held Evans is a heartfelt ode to the past and a hopeful gaze into
the future of what it means to be a part of the modern church. Like
millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to
go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan
building budgets, the scandals--to her, it was beginning to feel
like church culture was too far removed from Jesus. Yet, despite
her cynicism and misgivings, something kept drawing Evans back to
church. Evans found herself wanting to better understand the church
and find her place within it, so she set out on a new adventure.
Within the pages of Searching for Sunday, Evans catalogs her
journey as she loves, leaves, and finds the church once again.
Evans tells the story of her faith through the lens of seven
sacraments of the Catholic church--baptism, confession, holy
orders, communion, confirmation, the anointing of the sick, and
marriage--to teach us the essential truths about what she's learned
along the way, including: Faith isn't just meant to be believed,
it's meant to be lived and shared in community Christianity isn't a
kingdom for the worthy--it's a kingdom for the hungry, the broken,
and the imperfect The countless and beautiful ways that God shows
up in the ordinary parts of our daily lives Searching for Sunday
will help you unpack the messiness of community, teaching us that
by overcoming our cynicism, we can all find hope, grace, love, and,
somewhere in between, church.
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans: a
must-read for anyone on the journey of doubt, deconstruction, and
ultimately faith reborn. Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial
made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national
attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her
own when she began to have doubts about her faith. In Faith
Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed with
apologetics, struggling as her own faith unraveled one unexpected
question at a time. In order for her faith to survive, Rachel
realizes, it must adapt to change and evolve. Using as an
illustration her own spiritual journey from certainty to doubt to
faith, Evans challenges you to disentangle your faith from false
fundamentals and to trust in a God who is big enough to handle your
tough questions. In a changing cultural environment where new ideas
seem to threaten the safety and security of the faith, Faith
Unraveled is a profoundly moving, fearlessly honest, and
relentlessly hopeful story of survival. This book was previously
titled Evolving in Monkey Town.
New York Times Bestseller
What is "biblical womanhood" . . . really?
Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a
button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life
experiment--a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the
traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon
their careers to assume traditional gender roles in the home, Evans
decides to try it for herself, vowing to take all of the Bible's
instructions for women as literally as possible for a year.
Pursuing a different virtue each month, Evans learns the hard
way that her quest for biblical womanhood requires more than a
"gentle and quiet spirit" (1 Peter 3:4). It means growing out her
hair, making her own clothes, covering her head, obeying her
husband, rising before dawn, abstaining from gossip, remaining
silent in church, and even camping out in the front yard during her
period.
See what happens when a thoroughly modern woman starts referring
to her husband as "master" and "praises him at the city gate" with
a homemade sign. Learn the insights she receives from an ongoing
correspondence with an Orthodox Jewish woman, and find out what she
discovers from her exchanges with a polygamist wife. Join her as
she wrestles with difficult passages of scripture that portray
misogyny and violence against women.
With just the right mixture of humor and insight, compassion and
incredulity, "A Year of Biblical Womanhood" is an exercise in
scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation. What does God
truly expect of women, and is there really a prescription for
biblical womanhood? Come along with Evans as she looks for answers
in the rich heritage of biblical heroines, models of grace, and
all-around women of valor.
A progressive Christian parenting book with a social-justice
orientation How do we build a better world? One key way, says Cindy
Wang Brandt, is by learning to raise our children with justice,
mercy, and kindness. In Parenting Forward Brandt equips Christian
parents to model a way of following Jesus that has an outward
focus, putting priority on loving others, avoiding judgment, and
helping those in need. She shows how parents must work on
dismantling their own racial, cultural, gender, economic, and
religious biases in order to avoid passing them on to their
children. "By becoming aware of the complex ways we participate in
systems of inequal-ity or hierarchy," she says, "we begin to resist
systemic injustice ourselves, empower our children, and change our
communities."
God's love for us breaks every boundary. So should our love for
each other.Mihee Kim-Kort is a wife, a mom, and a Presbyterian
minister. And she's queer. As she became aware of her queer
sexuality, Mihee wondered what that meant for her spirituality. But
instead of pushing her away from God, her queerness has brought her
closer to Jesus and taught her how to love better.In Outside the
Lines, Mihee shows us how God, in Jesus, is oriented toward us in a
queer and radical way. Through the life, work, and witness of
Jesus, we see a God who loves us with a queer love. And our faith
in that God becomes a queer spirituality--a spirituality that
crashes through definitions and moves us outside of the categories
of our making. Whenever we love ourselves and our neighbors with
the boundary-breaking love of God, we live out this queer
spirituality in the world.With a captivating mix of personal story
and biblical analysis, Outside the Lines shows us how each of our
bodies fits into the body of Christ. Outside the lines and without
exceptions.
Same-sex marriage may be legal in America, but its still far from
the accepted norm, especially in Christian circles. So where can
LBGTQ Christians who desire a lifelong, covenantal relationship
look for dating and marriage advice when Christian relationship
guides have not only simply ignored but actively excluded same-sex
couples? David and Constantino Khalaf struggled to find relational
role models and guidance throughout dating, their engagement, and
the early months of their marriage. To fill this void, they began
writing Modern Kinship, a blog exploring the unique challenges
queer couples face on the road from singleness to marital bliss.
Part personal reflection, part commentary, and full of practical
advice, Modern Kinship explores the biblical concept of kinship
from a twenty-first-century perspective. This important resource
tackles subjects such as dating outside of smartphone apps,
overcoming church and family issues, meeting your partners parents,
deciding when and how to have children, and finding your mission as
a couple. Modern Kinship encourages queer Christian couples to
build God-centered partnerships of trust and mutuality.
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