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

This book offers a candid and introspective examination of the author's evolving relationship with the Christian church. It navigates the tensions between deep affection for the faith community and the pain of disillusionment that can lead to leaving. Through a series of personal essays, the narrative explores what it means to seek a spiritual home after experiencing loss and doubt, ultimately considering the possibility of finding the church anew in unexpected places and forms. more

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Rachel Held Evans
Rachel Held Evans

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. more

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“But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.”

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“When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty pleasures, God removed every possible obstruction to the covenant by being faithful for us, by becoming like us and subjecting Himself to the very worst within us, loving us all the way to the cross and all the way out of the grave.”

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“What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.”

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