The Searching for Sunday

<p><strong><em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> BESTSELLER</strong></p><p><strong><strong>Find hope and grace when you are feeling cynical about the church and faith.</strong></strong></p><p><strong>Are you struggling to connect with your church community? Do you find yourself questioning the core beliefs that you once held dear?<em> Searching for Sunday</em> from <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Rachel Held Evans is a heartfelt ode to the past and a hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the modern church.</strong></p><p>Like millions of her millennial peers Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy the politics the gargantuan building budgets the scandals--to her it was beginning to feel like church culture was too far removed from Jesus. Yet despite her cynicism and misgivings something kept drawing Evans back to church.</p><p>Evans found herself wanting to better understand the church and find her place within it so she set out on a new adventure. Within the pages of <em>Searching for Sunday </em> Evans catalogs her journey as she loves leaves and finds the church once again. </p><p>Evans tells the story of her faith through the lens of seven sacraments of the Catholic church--baptism confession holy orders communion confirmation the anointing of the sick and marriage--to teach us the essential truths about what she's learned along the way including: </p><ul><li>Faith isn't just meant to be believed it's meant to be lived and shared in community</li><li>Christianity isn't a kingdom for the worthy--it's a kingdom for the hungry the broken and the imperfect</li><li>The countless and beautiful ways that God shows up in the ordinary parts of our daily lives</li></ul><p> </p><p><em>Searching for Sunday </em>will help you unpack the messiness of community teaching us that by overcoming our cynicism we can all find hope grace love and somewhere in between church.</p>