Rachel Held Evans
Paperback | Pages: 268 pages Rating: 4.18 | 13772 Users | 1663 Reviews
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| Title | : | Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church |
| Author | : | Rachel Held Evans |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 268 pages |
| Published | : | April 14th 2015 by Thomas Nelson |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Religion. Autobiography. Memoir. Christian. Faith. Christianity |
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From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church. Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the scandals--church culture seemed so far removed from Jesus. Yet, despite her cynicism and misgivings, something kept drawing her back to Church. And so she set out on a journey to understand Church and to find her place in it. Centered around seven sacraments, Evans' quest takes readers through a liturgical year with stories about baptism, communion, confirmation, confession, marriage, vocation, and death that are funny, heartbreaking, and sharply honest. A memoir about making do and taking risks, about the messiness of community and the power of grace, Searching for Sunday is about overcoming cynicism to find hope and, somewhere in between, Church.Present Books Conducive To Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
| Original Title: | Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church |
| ISBN: | 0718022122 (ISBN13: 9780718022129) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2015) |
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Anyone whos ever doubted their religion or their faith will certainly connect with Evans exploration into Christianity and her own faith. But I had trouble with her writing. Shed repeat phrases or groups of words so many times on one page that it began to sound like a scratched record. There is an effective way to use repetitive phrases (Fredrick Backmans a master at this in my opinion), but I felt it missed the mark here. Her style of writing began to grate on my nerves and it stopped me fromJacob wrestled with God; I seem to be wrestling with the bride of Christ. My copy arrived yesterday, on a Sunday that had left me with more angst than usual about the church. I devoured the words in less than 24 hours. It's not that Rachel Held Evans gives a solution to my frustrations with the church, it's more that she just gives reassurance that it's not just me and that it is indeed the very nature of the church to be flawed. And so I find strength to continue in this relationship that both
I've been struggling with my own faith and relationship to my church for several years now. It's a lonely journey and there need to be more books like this about such journeys. My background is not the same as the authors, but I saw so much of my struggle and my thoughts reflected back in many of her words. It's difficult to be constructive about a piece that is so incredibly personal, but my one issue would likely be that the author goes off on some tangents, that, quite frankly, I ended up
Rachel Held Evans and I have several things we disagree. She believes same sex marriage is Biblically acceptable, she believes women can be pastors; I disagree with both of these issues. By thw way, Rachel is happily married to a man. She is not a lesbian. However, Rachel does make me think and for that I am grateful. She grew up believing the same things I believe. She went to Bryan College in Dayton, TN. Her Dad taught on the staff of that college. I read this book because I enjoy reading this
A Journey Towards the Trinity? Searching for SundayI am not a millennial. I live with two of them in my home well, one is part time now that she has gone to college. However, I have always had a difficult time figuring out which group I truly relate to the most. I could be a Boomer. No doubt my bowing to the god of consumerism labels me this way many times. I could be a Gen-X or Buster. God, my supervisors and my colleagues in ministry know that I have spent more than my fair share of time
Five stars for admitting to doubt and standing by hard beliefs. Five stars for starting the faith journeys of so many. Five stars for the hard work it takes to be part of the church and the heartbreak that comes along with it. Excellent writing.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that I sat low to the ground on a stool made for those needing to reach the top shelves in Joseph-Beth Booksellers. I was on the phone with a friend, searching in the "Spiritual" section for a book that would both challenge and somehow comfort me. As I listed off titles, he encouraged me to explore Rachel Held Evans's books.I walked out of the store that afternoon, pelted by rain on that gray Saturday before Easter, with Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving,
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