Experiencing Faith

Part by part and chapter by chapter, the book’s primary thematic focus is on different aspects of experiencing faith. A primary emphasis is on how faith feels in a life, and particularly in the author’s life, when it is experienced as present, active, and true. There is also, however, emphasis on how faith feels, or rather on how life feels, when faith seems to fade away, or ease, or become less of a defining factor. In short, the book is focused on experiencing both faith’s presence and faith’s absence, living within it and living without it.

Author Rachel Held Evans is very clear, throughout the book, that her personal and narrative focus is on Christian faith. She was born, raised, and married within the theological and practical boundaries of Evangelical Christianity, and says that throughout most of that earlier part of her life...