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Faith Unraveled: How A Girl Who Knew All The Answers Learned To Ask Questions (2014)

by Rachel Held Evans(Favorite Author)

4.32 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0310339162 (ISBN13: 9780310339168)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Zondervan

review 1: This was a very good book. It is writer Rachel Held Evans memoir of the 'evolution' of her faith. I have to say I identified very much with her upbringing as a Sunday School know-it-all and sword drill champion. In fact I have to wincingly reflect on how much of her self-assured Bible nerd snobbery I see in my young self.However, Evans didn't stay stuck in her ways. She grew up and asked a lot of questions and found her faith changing into something that was less certain but more humble and loving. She chronicles this journey with intelligence, wit and self-deprecating humor. This was a very enjoyable, powerful and challenging book. If you are a Millennial or Gen-Xer who grew up inside the 'Christian bubble', you owe it to yourself to give it a read.
review 2: ... moreMuch improved over her previous books (Evolving in Monkey Town, which was pretty funny actually/ A Year of Living blah blah blah ... Which was dumb and insulting in the way she twisted scripture to serve her point, which seemed to be something along the lines of conservative churches are stupid).This was a very thoughtful book that would be a good read for young folks questioning their faith. It was actually a good read for an old guy like me. Rachel said early on in her book that she was too young to write a memoir and she was right in that, but her analysis of some of the problems of cultural evangelical conservative churches was spot on. My only real criticism is like the word F*** she thinks that her generation is the first and only one to have discovered it. It being the previously mentioned "problems of cultural evangelical conservative churches". It's a weaker brother grace sort of thing that she hasn't learned yet. I'm sure she will. It's quite possible to believe pretty much exactly as she does and be an active vocal member of such a church (as well as an old person!). You don't help people grow in Jesus, grow in grace, grow in the knowledge of God and love of people by abandoning them and running off to the hip new modern church down the road. Oh sure there's a cost, stress, hurt feelings, 40 lashes less one, a cross at the end, old fogey music, cliched answers from pretty Pharisee-like people. But maybe that's not her cup to drink from.Good book, worth buying. less

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