How a girl who knew all the answers learned to ask the questions.
I know that I really like a book when I read the whole thing in one day. I picked up this book the other day and I couldn't put it down.
Rachel grew up in Dayton, Tennessee - the home of the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial. She tells about growing up in a conservative evangelical home in the middle of the Bible belt, and how her education right up through college prepared her to have all the right answers in order to defend her faith and doctrine.
But then something changed.
She began to look past empty doctrinal statements to see people. The very people that her doctrines condemned. Rachel discovers the startling truth that it's easy to be condemning of people who are different then you as long as you can keep them at a safe distance, but once you start to get to know them or pay attention to them things start to change.
And suddenly all those tightly bound answers give way to questions.
This is a book about learning to be honest.
This is a book about learning to not be afraid of the hard questions.
I would highly recommend this book.
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