Rachel Held Evans was brought up in the 'buckle of the Bible Belt' and inherited a conservative evangelical faith. But shaken by the realities of our broken world, cracks began to form, and questions turned to doubts, doubts to cynicism and cynicism to despair. But through this journey she continued to wrestle with the Bible, sometimes exasperated by its apparent complicity with the bloody, ugly, mess of this world, and other times challenged and inspired by it. So how does she understand this book now? How, with all its contradictions, violence, patriarchy, and bewildering images of God, can she say it's inspired? How has she found a way to love the Bible again?
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Timothy Beal - Finding Hope at the End of the World (N318)
Vanessa Chamberlin - A Spirituality of the Land (N317)
Selina Stone - Womanist Ways (N316)
Mark Karris - Healing From Hell (N315)
Cole Arthur Riley - Black Liturgies (N314)
Bethany Sollereder - Animal Suffering and the Love of God (N313)
Rachel Held Evans - Losing My Evangelical Religion [Revisited] (N312)
Christena Cleveland - A Spirituality of the Womb (N311)
Christmas Q&A (N310)
Jay Hulme - A Queer Journey of Saints and Sanctuaries (N309)
Dana Hicks - Reimagining Marriage (N308)
Ilia Delio - The Primacy of Love (N307)
Lindsay Munroe - Sexuality After Purity Culture (N306)
ChatGPT - In AI We Trust? (N305)
Nicola Slee - Abba Amma: Improvisations on the Lord's Prayer (N304)
David Blower - Farewell and Godspeed (N303)
Michael Frost - Deconstructing the Christian Narrative of Power (N302)
Sam Ewell - A Convivial Faith (N301)
Claire Gilbert - Revelations of Divine Love (N300)
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