Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about โacting like menโ and โacting like women,โ and more time acting like Jesus.
Rachel Held EvansLike all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.
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 EvansMy interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.
Rachel Held EvansWhat I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and ministered to them both. This, I think, is the difference between charity and justice. Justice means moving beyond the dichotomy between those who need and those who supply and confronting the frightening and beautiful reality that we desperately need one another.
Rachel Held Evans