Searching for Sunday: Loving Leaving and Finding the Church
Searching for Sunday: Loving Leaving and Finding the Church
Author: Rachel Held Evans
Desc: From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the 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--church culture seemed so far removed from Jesus. Yet despite her cynicism and misgivings something kept drawing her back to Church. And so she set out on a journey to understand Church and to find her place in it. Centered around seven sacraments Evans' quest takes readers through a liturgical year with stories about baptism communion confirmation confession marriage vocation and death that are funny heartbreaking and sharply honest. A memoir about making do and taking risks about the messiness of community and the power of grace Searching for Sunday is about overcoming cynicism to find hope and somewhere in between Church.