Rachel Held Evans, a best-selling author who challenged conservative Christianity and gave voice to a generation of wandering evangelicals wrestling with their faith, died on Saturday at a hospital in Nashville. Evans started a blog and in 2010 published her first book, “Evolving in Monkey Town,” the title a reference to the Scopes case. How will we know when we’ve got it wrong?”“If the Bible teaches that God is love, and love can look like genocide and violence and rape, then love can look like… “Accepting the Bible’s war stories without objection threatened to erase my humanity.”“It’s not always clear what we are meant to learn from the Bible’s most troubling stories, but if we simply look away, we learn nothing.”“There are parts of the Bible that inspire, parts that perplex, and parts that leave you with an open wound.”“We should be wary, then, of grand pronouncements that begin, ‘the Bible says’.”“A book of poetry, stories, letters, and prophecies cannot be easily rendered down into bullet points, so treating Scripture as an owner’s manual, based on a few verses here and a few verses there, will leave you more lost than found.”“It might not look like it now, but the Resistance is winning.”“Ever the quick-fix culture, we want oppressed people to ‘just get over it,’ to move on and let the injustice go.”“In Scripture, no two people encounter Jesus in exactly the same way.”“We get into trouble when we mistake instructions intended for a specific group of people at a specific moment in history as universally binding for all.”“It’s important to understand that in the first century, same-sex relationships were not thought to be expressions of sexual orientations but rather products of excessive sexual desire wherein people engaging in same-sex behaviour did so out of an excess of lust that could not be satisfied.”“In Paul’s world, if a man took the active role in a sexual encounter, his behaviour was deemed “natural,” but if he took the passive role, his behaviour was considered “unnatural”.“The came Christians who condemn all same-sex behaviour as ‘unnatural’ according to the Bible, don’t apply the same standards to head coverings or hair lengths among the men and women in their own congregations.”“When we unmoor the Epistles from their larger story, we tend to think of Paul as a disembodied voice affirming or unsettling our own points of view, rather than a religious, first-century Jew whose life was upended by an encounter with Jesus Christ.”Here’s an old blog post about another of Rachel’s book: Her birth sign is Gemini and follows Christianity.Reflecting her personal life, Rachel met and married her college boyfriend, Dan Evans in 2003. I was looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.”“Whether you are a Christian or an atheist or an agnostic or a so-called ‘none,’ ” Ms. Evans wrote, “you know this truth deep in your bones: ‘Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.’ ”“Death is a part of life,” she added. It needs a family of sinners, saved by grace, committed to tearing down the walls, throwing open the doors, and shouting, “Welcome! Evans was known to challenge traditional — and largely male and conservative — authority structures. When change is never an option, you have to hope the the world stays exactly as it is so as not to mess with your view of it.”“Christianity never could have survived the ebb and flow of time, much less its own worldwide expansion, had God not created it with the innate ability to adapt to changing environments.”“I’m an evolutionist because I believe that sometimes God uses changes in the environment to pry idols from our grip and teach us something new.”“Evolution means letting go of our false fundamentals so that God can get into those shadowy places we’re not sure we want Him to be.

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