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I played my role as the good Christian girl and spared everyone the drama of an argument. But that decision to remain silent split me in two. It convinced me that I could never really be myself in church. That I had to check my heart and mind at the door.Rachel Held Evans
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Turns out, I wasn't the only one struggling with doubt. I wasn't the only one questioning my church's position on homosexuality and gender roles, and a whole host of other issues. I wasn't the only one who felt lonely on Sunday mornings.Rachel Held Evans
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Scripture doesn’t speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.Rachel Held Evans
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Faith is something you take a day at a time, not something you figured out at the startRachel Held Evans
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Church isn’t about you! It’s about worshipping Jesus. Instead of being consumers, let’s go to church and ask what we can give Jesus because of all he has given us.Rachel Held Evans
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There is not a corner of this world that God has abandoned.Rachel Held Evans
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Wilhelm Dilthey puts it rather starkly, "Jesus came announcing the Kingdom of God, but what appeared was the church.Rachel Held Evans
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Seems to me that for you, evangelicalism is like the boyfriend you broke up with two years ago, but whose Facebook page you still check compulsively.Rachel Held Evans
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In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.Rachel Held Evans
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There is nothing nominal or lukewarm or indifferent about standing in this hurricane of questions every day and staring each one down until you've mustered all the bravery and fortitude and trust it takes to whisper just one of them out loudRachel Held Evans
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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.Rachel Held Evans