Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions

Rachel Held Evans poured her heart and soul into crafting this deeply personal work. If you're curious how her faith journey started and how it evolved, reading this refreshed edition of her first book is the perfect place to start.

(Previously titled "Evolving in Monkey Town")


Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.


In Faith Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed with apologetics, struggling as her own faith unraveled one unexpected question at a time.


In order for her faith to survive, Rachel realizes, it must adapt to change and evolve. Using as an illustration her own spiritual journey from certainty to doubt to faith, Evans challenges you to disentangle your faith from false fundamentals and to trust in a God who is big enough to handle your tough questions.


In a changing cultural environment where new ideas seem to threaten the safety and security of the faith, Faith Unraveled is a fearlessly honest story of survival.