Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.

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--church culture seemed so far removed from Jesus. Yet, despite her cynicism and misgivings, something kept drawing her back to Church. And so she set out on a journey to understand Church and to find her place in it.

Centered around seven sacraments, Evans' quest takes readers through a liturgical year with stories about baptism, communion, confirmation, confession, marriage, vocation, and death that are funny, heartbreaking, and sharply honest.

A memoir about making do and taking risks, about the messiness of community and the power of grace, Searching for Sunday is about overcoming cynicism to find hope and, somewhere in between, Church.

• Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (series_title)
• Faith Unraveled
• A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'
• Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
• Parenting Forward: How to Raise Children with Justice, Mercy, and Kindness
• Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
• Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
• Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
• Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
• Love Big: The Power of Revolutionary Relationships to Heal the World