Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling — Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling — Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling — Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling — Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling — Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
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Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling the truth, which is that most of us are a frightening mix of good and evil, sinner and saint.

— Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
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