Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu, who started the Evolving Faith conference with Evans, wrote in the Washington Post: “She used her writing to build the bridges so many of us needed to get back to God’s love, to one another, and to the church. She also served on President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. “Evans makes her way back to ‘loving the Bible again’ not by setting her questions aside but by learning to see how similar questions animate the biblical writers’ own attempts to tell stories about beginnings and wars and walking on water.”Įvans was a convener of the Why Christian and Evolving Faith conferences, designed for progressive Christians and others who aren’t sure where they belong in the spiritual landscape. Elser writes in a review for the Christian Century. What do we do when the childhood wonder ebbs away, when we are left with our disquieting questions” about difficult texts? Ashleigh D. “The question behind Inspired is one that many readers who have aged with the Bible will find painfully familiar. Read our latest issue or browse back issues.Įvans gathered a large following through her blog posts and books, including the New York Times best seller A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching for Sunday, and, most recently, Inspired.
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