Rachel Held Evans’s labor of love
Rachel’s work changed the trajectory of American Christianity, but she was always grounded and generous.
Rachel’s work changed the trajectory of American Christianity, but she was always grounded and generous.
Evans’s books A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching for Sunday, and Inspired traced the evolution of her faith.
“We are all created equal,” said the pastor of the Presbyterian church where the 19-year-old shooter is a member.
“What was attacked was Sri Lanka’s strained but still living tradition of inter-religious and inter-ethnic cooperation and friendship,” wrote one NGO leader.
Before I could say the customary words, she reached for the pottery chalice and took drink after drink.
A 21-year-old white man faces hate crimes and arson charges for the church fires, and a white supremacist symbol was spray-painted at the Highlander Center.
Our spiritual lives are like kintsugi pottery—mended with gold leaf along the cracks.
We’re preconditioned for self-gain and not for self-sacrifice. We need God’s help not only to do better but to want to do better.
In a world of whittled attention spans, perhaps the greatest gift I can offer my children is also the simplest.
Tsunetomo and Thurman both say death is not to be feared for those who understand their purpose in life.