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Rachel Held Evans

Perhaps being a Christian isn’t about experiencing the kingdom of heaven someday but about experiencing the kingdom of heaven every day.

christianity, inspirational

Rachel Held Evans

It is hard for us to recognize it now, but Peter and Paul were introducing the first Christian family to an entirely new community, a community that transcends the rigid hierarchy of human institutions, a community in which submission is mutual and all are free.

christianity, community, family, mutuality, submission

Rachel Held Evans

The Christian versions of the household codes were clearly progressive for their time, but does that mean they have the last word, that Christians in changing places and times cannot progress further?

christianity, gender-roles, progress

Rachel Held Evans

It 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.

christianity, gospel, irony, offense

Rachel Held Evans

If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.

bible, gender, proof-texting, women

Rachel Held Evans

(I should mention I attended a Christian elementary school where “my dad’s hermeneutic can beat up your dad’s hermeneutic” served as legit schoolyard banter.)

belief, christians, hermeneutics, theology

Rachel Held Evans

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.)

answers, bible, christianity, skeptics, spirituality

Rachel Held Evans

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.

bible, christianity, fundamentalism, spirituality, worldview

Rachel Held Evans

You can’t get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

jesus, spirituality

Rachel Held Evans

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that’s good to keep in mind.

bible, inerrancy, interpretation, spirituality

Rachel Held Evans

And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters’ veins. We are each associated with life; each subject to the impossible expectations and cruel projections of men; each fallen, blamed, and misunderstood; and each stubbornly vital to the process of bringing something new–perhaps something better–into this world…We are each an Eve.

biblical, feminism, religion, women

Rachel Held Evans

According to the Talmud, loshon hara kills three people: the one who speaks it, the one who hears it, and the one about whom it is told. ‘Kill’ may strike the modern reader as a bit hyperbolic, but when you think of all the friendships lost, careers stunted, and opportunities thwarted as a result of gossip among women, violent language seems appropriate. We cause serious collateral damage to the advancement of our sex each time we perpetuate the stereotype that women can’t get along.

feminism, gossip, womanhood, women