Why Christian: Embracing Uncertainity, Risk, and Vulnerability on the Path to God

Awards:   Winner of Nautilus Book Award (United States).
Author:   Rachel Held Evans
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9780062894472


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 November 2021
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of Nautilus Book Award (United States).

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New York Times Bestseller “A touching series of essays in which Evans, with Chu’s invisible pen, explores how one might find a path forward in Christianity beyond conservative evangelicalism” -Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker “Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook. . . . I could not help but notice the poetry in Evans’s prose. . . . What readers will find in these pages was someone deeply human: funny, irreverent, curious, wise, forgiving, nonjudgmental.” -Maggie Smith, The Washington Post A collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life continue to encourage, challenge, and influence.  Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her theologically astute, profoundly honest, and beautifully personal books, which have guided, instructed, edified, and shaped Christians as they seek to live out a just and loving faith. At the time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel was working on a new book about wholeheartedness. With the help of her close friend and author Jeff Chu, that work-in-progress has been woven together with some of her other unpublished writings into a rich collection of essays that ask candid questions about the stories we’ve been told—and the stories we tell—about our faith, our selves, and our world. This book is for the doubter and the dreamer, the seeker and the sojourner, those who long for a sense of spiritual wholeness as well as those who have been hurt by the Church but can’t seem to let go of the story of Jesus. Through theological reflection and personal recollection, Rachel wrestles with God’s grace and love, looks unsparingly at what the Church is and does, and explores universal human questions about becoming and belonging. An unforgettable, moving, and intimate book.

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Author:   Rachel Held Evans
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   HarperCollins
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780062894472


ISBN 10:   0062894471
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 November 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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I love everything Rachel Held Evans wrote, and I love her profound, warm-hearted, brilliant storytelling. Her books have always thrown the theological lights on for me, charmed the pants off me, entertained and enlightened me. -- <strong>Anne Lamott, author of <em>Dusk, Night, Dawn </em>and <em>Help, Thanks, Wow</em></strong> Gorgeous, heartfelt and bittersweet. Rachel Held Evans spent her beautiful life trying to convince us that, all along, God's love was for absolutely everyone. At last, we must believe her. -- <strong>Kate Bowler, author of <em>No Cure for Being Human</em> and <em>Everything Happens for a Reason</em></strong> This beautiful book is a bittersweet sanctuary. I'm grateful to Jeff Chu for coming alongside her words with such faithfulness to ensure that her voice rings true in every line. For those of us who find ourselves wandering in the wilderness, this is a respite from our most trusted leader. -- <strong>Sarah Bessey, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>A Rhythm of Prayer</em> and <em>Jesus Feminist</em></strong> Long admired (and vilified) for her openness to question the Bible, God, and the practice of white evangelical Christianity, Evans takes issue with assertions that 'a bulletproof belief system' is a hallmark of Christianity. . . . Even readers unfamiliar with Evans' previous work will find much to appreciate. -- <strong>Library Journal</strong> Like all of her work, [Wholehearted Faith] is warm, wise, and intimate. . . . Evans doesn't shame the ignorant. She delights us into knowledge on the way to wisdom. . . . One can see why Evans's critics pounce. She likes to draw out their poison to bring healing. -- <strong><em>The Christian Century</em></strong>


I love everything Rachel Held Evans wrote, and I love her profound, warm-hearted, brilliant storytelling. Her books have always thrown the theological lights on for me, charmed the pants off me, entertained and enlightened me. -- <strong>Anne Lamott, author of <em>Dusk, Night, Dawn </em>and <em>Help, Thanks, Wow</em></strong> Gorgeous, heartfelt and bittersweet. Rachel Held Evans spent her beautiful life trying to convince us that, all along, God's love was for absolutely everyone. At last, we must believe her. -- <strong>Kate Bowler, author of <em>No Cure for Being Human</em> and <em>Everything Happens for a Reason</em></strong>


Author Information

"Rachel Held Evans, an award-winning writer, is a popular blogger and the author of Faith Unraveled and the bestselling A Year of Biblical Womanhood. She lives in Dayton, TN. Jeff Chu grew up in Berkeley, California, and Miami, Florida. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, earned a master""s degree from the London School of Economics, and received French-American Foundation and Harvard Divinity School fellowships. He has written for Time, Condé Nast Portfolio, the Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company, winning Deadline Club and German Marshall Fund awards for his work. He lives in Brooklyn, New York."

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