Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever Iโm angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what Iโm saying. And itโs the language in which I most often hear Godโs voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.
Rachel Held EvansMillennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity. We're looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. Like every generation before ours and every generation after, we're looking for Jesus-the same Jesus who can be found in the strange places he's always been found: in bread, in wine, in baptism, in the Word, in suffering, in community, and among the least of these.
Rachel Held EvansContrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.
Rachel Held EvansChurch attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
Rachel Held EvansWhen 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 EvansIn 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 of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God.
Rachel Held Evans