REVIEW: Evolving in Monkey Town

Posted by on Jul 13, 2010 in Uncategorized | 13 comments

In Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Rachel Held Evans takes readers on her unabashed and gutsy journey of self-discovery. I love Rachel’s approach to tackling her “faith crisis” with honesty and a fearless tenacity to ask the questions that I, at times, have been afraid to ask. I found myself cheering her on – hoping and praying that she would turn the corner and ask the one question that would bring her out of her own personal hell. I felt her pain, and if I had actually been at her kitchen table having coffee or...

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Writing Around Your Idols – Guest Post by Rachel Held Evans

Posted by on Nov 30, 2009 in Uncategorized | 35 comments

“Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.” – Isaiah 45:20 The first time I realized I was an idolater was when I went to India. Up until then, counting my blessings meant counting my material assets—food, shelter, clothing, cars, appliances, toilet paper, cell phones, hair products, and double-stuffed Oreos. I assumed that the more of these things I had, the more blessed I was by God. And yet, as I worked closely with the widows and orphans affected by the AIDS crisis there, I saw in their faces the kind of joy and contentment that...

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