Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (Paperback)

from spinsterrevival

This was great, and I loved the way that she broke down the stories into actual stories that sounded relatable. My Bible knowledge consists of one English class in undergrad where we read a few books in the Bible (I knew the Job one!) and a few summers of Vacation Bible School as a child. The aut...

from witchyrichy

I received a complimentary review copy of [Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water and Loving the Bible Again] from [[Rachel Held Evans]]'s publisher through a Twitter post. I am working on reading the Bible this year, and the book seemed a good fit. Evans frames the book with her own story of...

from NeedMoreShelves

I have found it hard, over the years, to love the Bible. It seems to have become a battering ram, bashing "truth" over the heads of those who don't conform. A surgeon's knife, excising the ones who "don't belong". Or, more recently, a paintbrush, to whitewash the horrors being perpetrated in a co...

from staciec

I've read several Rachel Held Evans books, and each one feels like she's writing my story but with better and more interesting storytelling. Inspired was no different. Each section had a "creative retelling" section followed by a chapter discussing some of the issues and ways of reading types of ...

from Juva

A thought-provoking book about the purpose and meaning of the Bible. What was the intent of the original authors? How was the book read and understood throughout history? And how ought modern readers to approach it? The author engages with these questions in new and fresh ways. Most notably, she ...