Quotes by Rachel Held Evans

From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner of Christmas. Who got up at 4 a.m. to put the ham in the oven? A woman. . . . Who sent the Christmas card describing her eighteen-year-old sons incarceration as a short break before college? A woman. Who remembered to include batteries at the bottom of each stocking? A woman. And who gets credit for pulling it all off?Santa.Thats right. A man.

Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesnt 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.

To Jesus, by faith alone did not mean by belief alone. To Jesus, faith was invariably linked to obedience.

As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.

“Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.”

“What a comfort to know that God is a poet.”