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Rachel Held Evans, born on June 8, 1981, is a well-known American columnist. Her work focuses on issues such as religion, gender, and social justice, and she has gained a wide readership with her insightful and accessible writing style.

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“Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling the truth, which is that most of us are a frightening mix of good and evil, sinner and saint.”

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Book:Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“When you stop trying to force the Bible to be something it's not--static, perspicacious, certain, absolute--then you're free to revel in what it is: living, breathing, confounding, surprising, and yes, perhaps even magic.”

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Book:Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Source: Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

“(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.”

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Book:Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

Source: Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

“Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity.”

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Book:Wholehearted Faith

Source: Wholehearted Faith

“The origin stories of Scripture remind us we belong to a very large and very old family that has been walking with God from the beginning. Even when we falter and fall, this God is in it for the long haul. We will not be abandoned.”

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Author:Rachel Held Evans