Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the QuestionsEighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith. Growing up in a culture obsessed with apologetics, Evans asks questions she never thought she would ask. She learns that in order for her faith to survive in a postmodern context, it must adapt to change and evolve. Using as an illustration her own spiritual journey from certainty, through doubt, to faith, Evans adds a unique perspective to the ongoing dialogue about postmodernism and the church that has so captivated the Christian community in recent years. In a changing cultural environment where new ideas threaten the safety and security of the faith, Evolving in Monkey Town is a fearlessly honest story of survival. |
Contents
Introduction WHYI AM AN EVOLUTIONIST PART 1 Habitat | |
THE BEST CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE AWARD | |
JUNE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS LADY | |
MONKEY TOWN | |
GREG THE APOLOGIST | |
WHEN SKEPTICS | |
Challenge | |
LAXMI THE WIDOW | |
GOD THINGS | |
MARK THE EVANGELIST | |
JUDGMENT | |
ADELE THE OXYMORON | |
SWORD DRILLS | |
Change | |
SAM THE FEMINIST | |
NATHAN THE SOLDIER | |
WHEN BELIEVERS | |
CHAPTER 8JESUS GOD IN SANDALS CHAPTER 9 SURVIVORS GUILT | |
JOHN THE REVELATOR | |
HIGHER WAYS | |
ADAPTATION | |
DAN THE FIXER | |
LIVING THE QUESTIONS | |
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