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Rachel Held Evans (née Rachel Grace Held, June 8, 1981) is an American Christian columnist, blogger and author. Her book A Year of Biblical Womanhood was on The New York Times' e-book non-fiction best-seller list.

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What each of us longs for the most is to be both fully known and fully loved. Miraculously, God feels the same way about us. God, too, wants to be fully known and fully loved. God wants this so much that He has promised to knock down every obstacle in the way, enduring even His own death, to be with us, to consummate this love.

Consummate, Miraculously, Obstacles, Same, Want, Way

When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.

Beautiful, Ignore, Say, Tend, Tone, Voice

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand. . . I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p. 17-18)

Belief, Death, Fundamentalism, Hand, Hands, Thinking

I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.

Assume, Assuming, Bible, Come, Mean, Trouble

Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again.

Higher, Love Is, Lying, Mercy, Thinking

In 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.

Bread Of Life, Know, Practice, Run, Running, Saves

Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith; that latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice; the latter a virtue.

Animal, Believe, Differences, Enrich, Faith, Former

I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved, for it changes with the seasons, but its roots keep it anchored in the ground. Mastering a gentle and quiet spirit didn’t mean changing my personality, just regaining control of it, growing strong enough to hold back and secure enough to soften.

Control, Mean, Moved, Roots, Strong, Thinking

Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

Exactly, Search, Search For Truth, Tell, Wanted, Wanted Someone

This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.

Gathered, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Rooms, Tables, Yes

No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].

Church, Coffee, Fog, Shops

I'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.

Christian, Names, Observe, Reality, Sin, World

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

Defeated, Life, Path, Power, Sin, Victory

Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service, our actions are sacred and ministerial. To be called into the priesthood, as all of us are, is to be called to a life of presence, of kindness.

Follow, Goodness, Humble, Kindness, Sacred, Teacher

We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.

Believe, Christian, Life, Long, Struggle

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

Good, Inerrant, Interpretation, Mind

What 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.

Beautiful, Dichotomy, Identified, Jesus, Moving, Rich

The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor

Described, Ideals, Proverbs, Smallest, Valor

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

Apologist, Gospels, Jesus, Made, Noticing

I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

Christian, Church, Community

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