"Observation" by Rachel Held Evans

[Haruo]

[Dave Roberts]

[KeithE]

Right on, AMEN and

[Mrs Haruo]

When I saw that editorial, I thought it was definitely a "Keeper". If we aren't here to ease the pain of the stomped upon, what are we here for? Definitely a statement to nail to the door.

[Tim Bonney]

Rachel spoke at my church this past year as the Wright Lecturer for Morningside College. She is an impressive young woman and very insightful. She has a great understanding of what young Christians are thinking today and approaches issues from that perspective.

[Stephen Fox]

My sister is a big fan of Evans and I'd hoped to have seen her two nights ago in Bham but it didn't work out. She was appearing at Cumberland UMC there in Mtn Brook near the Episcopal church where Claypool was longtime pastor.

I'm no theologian and Rachel certainly is more insightful, eloquent than I am, but my gut tells me she may not be a first rank theologian, though she is certainly worth all our time.

I imagine Schleiermacher, Barth, Bultmann have a lot on her; maybe even Anne Lamott. And again instinctually Marilyne Robinson the Pulitzer novelist out thinks Rachel, but again Rachel is one of the good people. And she is much more popular than Harnack cause he was never witty enough to name a book Evoloving in Monkeytown.

Still, if I can broach the name, the board would be much wiser, more worthwhile, if some would wander off the popular list and join me in reading Moly Worthen, for instance; and Charles Marsh's great bio on Bonhoeffer.