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Searching for Sunday, loving, leaving, and finding the Church, Rachel Held Evans

eng

Includes bibliographical references

no index present

non fiction

Searching for Sunday

bibliography

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Rachel Held Evans

loving, leaving, and finding the Church

"For a generation that has largely said, "count me out," church represents a complicated relationship of both longing and apathy. There's a history there- a past full of confusion and hurt, but a past that often is impossible to abandon. In Searching for Sunday, Rachel Evans exposes her own thorny relationship with the church, articulating the concerns, frustration, and hopes of many of her peers."--Back coverLike millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the scandals -- church culture seemed so far removed from Jesus. Yet, despite her cynicism and misgivings, something kept drawing her back to Church. And so she set out on a journey to understand Church and to find her place in it. Centered around seven sacraments, Evans' quest takes readers through a liturgical year with stories about baptism, communion, confirmation, confession, marriage, vocation, and death that are funny, heartbreaking, and sharply honest

Baptism. Water ; Believer's baptism ; Naked on Easter ; Chubby bunny ; Enough ; Rivers -- Confession. Ash ; Vote yes on one ; Dirty laundry ; What we have done ; Meet the press ; Dust -- Holy Orders. Hands ; The mission ; Epic fail ; Feet -- Communion. Bread ; The meal ; Methodist dance party ; Open hands ; Open table ; Wine -- Confirmation. Breath ; Wayside shrines ; Trembling giant ; Easter doubt ; With God's help ; Wind -- Anointing of the sick. Oil ; Healing ; Evangelical acedia ; This whole business with the hearse ; Perfume -- Marriage. Crowns ; Mystery ; Body ; Kingdom -- Epilogue: dark