I thought God wanted to use me to show gay people how to be straight. Instead God used gay people to show me how to be Christian.
I thought the world needed my answers, but as it turns out, I needed the world’s questions. I needed to learn how to doubt well, listen better, and be humbled by how little I know. I needed to discover that evangelicalism is just one table in Christ’s banquet hall, the Great Cloud of Witnesses far more sprawling and diverse than I’d ever imagined.
— Rachel Held Evans, Braving the Truth, p. 61
Photo: Dipladenia flowers, June 13, 2026