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Searching for Sunday
- Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
- Narrated by: Rachel Held Evans
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
Are you struggling to connect with your church community? Do you find yourself questioning the core beliefs that you once held dear? Searching for Sunday, from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans is a heartfelt ode to the past and a hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the modern church.
Like 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--to her, it was beginning to feel like church culture was too far removed from Jesus. Yet, despite her cynicism and misgivings, something kept drawing Evans back to church.
Evans found herself wanting to better understand the church and find her place within it, so she set out on a new adventure. Within the pages of Searching for Sunday, Evans catalogs her journey as she loves, leaves, and finds the church once again.
Evans tells the story of her faith through the lens of seven sacraments of the Catholic church--baptism, confession, holy orders, communion, confirmation, the anointing of the sick, and marriage--to teach us the essential truths about what she's learned along the way, including:
- Faith isn't just meant to be believed, it's meant to be lived and shared in community
- Christianity isn't a kingdom for the worthy--it's a kingdom for the hungry, the broken, and the imperfect
- The countless and beautiful ways that God shows up in the ordinary parts of our daily lives
Searching for Sunday will help you unpack the messiness of community, teaching us that by overcoming our cynicism, we can all find hope, grace, love, and, somewhere in between, church.
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- SW73
- 06-01-20
Honest and some inspirational comments
This is an honest book, articulating the experience of many. There are many inspirational moments & it is book that I will go back to.
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- Rosie Peters R.peters
- 27-05-20
A honest and progressive piece
Rachel held evans is a inspiring writer and she captures her love for the Church very well.
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- Richard Butlin
- 31-07-23
Each time I listen I hear something new
I adore this book! Rachel Held Evans shares stories from her faith journey in a way that has universal relevance but also connects personally. Structured around the sacraments, it is interspersed with accessible scriptural references and modern day stories.
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- Ryan McGuinness
- 29-07-15
really captured what we are feeling
great book. great revising. really captured or thoughts on church and lgbt community. will heartily recommend
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- sammieseagull
- 25-11-20
Brill
I love Rachel's books. Really miss her being gone. Would have lived to know her.
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- Jane Wilson
- 07-03-22
Too long
This was recommended to me by two friends who said as I am relatively new to the church after a long absence, the book would strike a chord. However.. I did not have a normal upbringing and did not have a similar experience as a teenager in the church so did not share that much empathy with the writer. Clearly she was an outstanding individual and I enjoyed listening to the part where she tried to set up a church but I did find her insistence on staying in the church despite all her problems with it hard to follow. It was very much a ‘there’s not much alternative if you want to be in the church, so keep going - but try to change it as you go’ which is true, but also a long excuse at times for a book. Her tone was very evangelical and preachy and too insistent after halfway and I almost quit. I think maybe a shorter book would have been more satisfying.
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