Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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.

Centered around seven sacraments, Evans' quest takes readers through a liturgical year with sharply honest and even funny stories about 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.

• Baptism
• Communion
• Confirmation
• COnfession
• Marriage
• Vocation
• and even Death.

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.

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 04/14/2015
ISBN: 9780718022129
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.00d
Award: Christianity Today Book Award - Award of Merit

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/23/2015
Library Journal 05/15/2015 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/02/2015 pg. 45