Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
Rachel Held EvansEvangelicalism 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 EvansI'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.
Rachel Held EvansIt is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.
Rachel Held EvansGod and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.
Rachel Held EvansWe could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God in the ground. God got up.
Rachel Held Evans