And lest you think I count myself finished, know this: When I was a Bible-thumping, church-going, know-it-all Republican, God used bleeding-heart, politically correct, question-everything liberals to teach me to be human, to challenge my notions of who the enemy is. But now that I’m a bleeding-heart, politically correct, question-everything liberal, God insists on using Bible-thumping, church-going, know-it-all Republicans to teach me to be human, to challenge my notions of who the enemy is.
God, it seems, is rather stubbornly committed to extracting me from the notion that this is all about being right.
— Rachel Held Evans, Braving the Truth, p. 62
Photo: Front walk to Château de Chantilly, France, June 25, 2026