Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

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Harper Collins, 2010 - Religion - 232 pages
In Evolving in Monkey Town, Rachel Held Evans recounts her experiences growing up in Dayton, Tennessee, a town that epitomized Christian fundamentalism during the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. With fearless honesty, Evans describes how her faith survived her doubts and challenges readers to re-imagine Christianity in a postmodern context, where knowing all the answers isn t as important as asking the questions."
 

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Preface
13
The Best Christian Attitude Award
27
June the Ten Commandments Lady 45 51 65 69
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Monkey Town
51
Greg the Apologist
65
Nathan the Soldier
83
When Believers Ask 89 101 109
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Jesus God in Sandals
101
Higher Ways
127
Laxmi the Widow
139
God Things
145
Mark the Evangelist
157
Adele the Oxymoron
177
Sam the Feminist
199
Dan the Fixer
213
Acknowledgments
229

Survivors Guilt
109
John the Revelator
121

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Rachel Held Evans was born Rachel Grace Held in Alabama on June 8, 1981. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Bryan College in 2003. She started working for The Herald-News in 2004. In 2007, she won an award from the Tennessee Press Association for the best personal humor column. An Episcopalian, she left the evangelical church in 2014 to find what she considered a truer, more authentic Christianity. She wrote four books including Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions; A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master; and Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again. She died from extensive brain swelling on May 4, 2019 at the age of 37.

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