Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Page 25
72. Miles, Jesus Freak, 105.
73. “Brene Brown: Jesus Wept,” video, 6:00, The Work of the People, www.theworkofthepeople.com/jesus-wept (accessed 13 October 2014).
74. Be sure to check out the amazing products from Thistle Farms—a great way to support an organization changing lives through education, entrepreneurship, and love: www.thistlefarms.org/ (accessed 13 October 2014).
75. Becca Stevens, Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling (Nashville: Jericho Books, 2013), 49.
76. Ibid., 140.
77. Names and some details have been changed in this account, for privacy purposes.
78. Laurie Goodstein, “Christian Charity Backtracks on Gays,” New York Times, March 27, 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/us/christian-charity-backtracks-on-gays.html?_r=0 (accessed 13 October 2014).
79. Diana Butler Bass, Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening (New York: HarperOne, 2012), 13.
80. “Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church,” The Barna Group, September 28, 2011, www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church (accessed 13 October 2014).
81. G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man (New York: EMP Books, 2012), 213.
82. Cheryl M. Lawrence, “A good death,” Faith & Leadership, April 22, 2014, www.faithandleadership.com/content/cheryl-m-lawrence-good-death (accessed 13 October 2014).
83. Stacey Chomiak, “The Church That Loved,” February 4, 2014, rachelheldevans.com/blog/church-loved (accessed 13 Octobr 2014).
84. Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark (New York: HarperOne, 2014), 129.
85. From the account of a traditional Orthodox crowing in Schmemann, For the Life of the World, 89.
86. Ibid., 82.
87. Tim Keller uses similar language in his book, The Meaning of Marriage (New York: Riverhead, 2011).
88. Schmemann, For the Life of the World, 89.
89. Ibid.
90. Ibid., 91.
91. Taylor, An Altar in the World, 38.
92. Thanks to the wonderful Diana Butler Bass, who explained this to me via a Facebook conversation because she is awesome.
93. George Eldon Ladd, The Presence of the Future (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1974), 262.
About the Author
RACHEL HELD EVANS, AN AWARD-WINNING WRITER, IS A popular blogger and the author of Faith Unraveled and the New York Times best-selling A Year of Biblical Womanhood. She lives in Dayton, TN.