Faith Unraveled: How A Girl Who Knew All The Answers Learned To Ask Questions (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
This is one of the best faith-based books I've ever read, especially in light of my own spiritual life in the past several years.I perhaps ironically want to memorize parts of it -- in many ways, this might be my new personal apologetics go-to, even though several portions of the book describe why the apologetics movement crippled Christians in the last and current centuries.This book gets it right. The author, Rachel Held Evans, grew up in David, Tennessee, the city where the Scopes Monkey Trial took place. So, Rachel grew up with fundamentalism all around her. From the time she was born, she grew up in an environment in which like-minded people agreed on religious ideas. As Rachel grew up and her world expanded she began to ask questions. She had been raised to have the answers to all of the questions posed to her by "non-Christians". She quotes from a friend David, "Belief is always a risk, a gamble - an adventure, if you will. The line between faith and doubt is the point of action. You don't need certainty to obey, just the willingness to risk being wrong". Rachel raises lots of the same questions that many people who have turned from religious organizations ask. This is a good book to discuss with a friend!
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So refreshing to hear a Christian discuss questions and doubt.
—kassidy227
