Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions
In this 2010 book by the late Rachel Held Evans, we are taken on a journey of faith. Evans describes her upbringing in a conservative Christian environment and how she learned to defend the faith she had been taught. I resonated with a lot of her experiences, including going to a conservative, evangelical church and then college.
Along the way, she began to question some of the things she had been taught and some of the things she read in the Bible. Her questions were not well received by those around her, but she continued pursuing answers. Eventually she determines that she does not need to leave her faith in God to find answers but just the limited beliefs about what it means to be a Christian and follow God that she had been taught.
This was such a good book. It really affirmed what I have been experiencing in my faith journey the last few years. Evans compares the process of questioning your beliefs to evolution, as the town she lived in was the location for the Snopes trial in the early 1900s, which was about teaching evolution in schools. My favorite line in the book is, “Faith must adapt in order to survive.”
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