Susan Schneider

“The apostles remembered what many modern Christians tend to forget—that what makes the gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out but who it lets in.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

“I read science for the same reason I read theology: because I am a seeker after truth.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion

“I am a Christian,” I concluded, “because the story of Jesus is still the story I’m willing to risk being wrong about.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

“There are few praise and worship songs confessing how we participate in the brokenness of others through systems of oppression. There is rarely a single word in prepared liturgies to remind me that just because I didn’t cause the particular action that hurt a particular person, I am not freed from the communal problem.”
― Emmy Kegler, One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins