We have some important updates and announcements for you – including notes from Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu. You can find the link below.
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We have some good news to share, friends ... Evolving Faith 2020 is happening! 🎉 We'll be gathering as a live virtual conference on October 2-3, 2020. Register or learn more by visiting evolvingfaith.com now!
Today and every day, we honor our friend Rachel Held Evans (1981–2019). On this painful anniversary, we are thinking of her beloved family and friends with love, grief, and prayer. (1/6)
“I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.” - @rachelheldevans#RememberingRHE
Anticipatory hope is not enough anymore. Participatory hope is the only kind that works now.
I want cleats, not ruby slippers.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#EvolvingFaith2020
Food, drink, shelter—all necessities. So are rest, beauty, + joy, especially now. A friend of EF asked us to facilitate this:
If you're a Black woman, we'd like to send you $50 to put toward something to give you rest, beauty + joy. We have enough for 20. Post your Venmo below.
"We're in a moment where major Christian brands aren't willing to promote mask-wearing...apparently Jesus only died for the unbelievably cheerful."
"This is wrapped up of another myth: invincibility. Where grief is neat and pain can be solved." @KatecBowler#EvolvingFaith2020
We grieve. We lament the abuse of authority in this world. We say their names: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd. We pray against evil powers and unjust principalities. We recommit to anti-racism, to the cause of equity, and to the way of love.
"The wide embrace of God is always bigger than we thought it was. It’s never smaller. If it’s smaller, then we were wrong." - Jenny Morgan #EvolvingFaith19