Jeff Chu

Rachel Held Evans is a beautiful writer. She has a literary way of entering the Scriptures fully as herself, and invites us into the same.

In this book she brings her whole self, and demonstrates how to show grace to ourselves and even to our enemies. She pours love for the reader and the world into every page. Her final chapter, Telos, is beautiful and heartbreaking. A chapter on a complete life when hers was cut so short.

I read it too fast although I really tried not to. I want to read it again and again.… (mehr)

At the time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel was working on a new book about wholeheartedness. With the help of her close friend and author Jeff Chu, that work-in-progress has been woven together with some of her other unpublished writings into a rich collection of essays that ask candid questions about the stories we’ve been told - and the stories we tell - about our faith, our selves, and our world.

This book is for the doubter and the dreamer, the seeker and the sojourner, those who long for a sense of spiritual wholeness as well as those who have been hurt by the Church but can’t seem to let go of the story of Jesus. Through theological reflection and personal recollection, Rachel wrestles with God’s grace and love, looks unsparingly at what the Church is and does, and explores universal human questions about becoming and belonging. An unforgettable, moving, and intimate book.… (mehr)