Wisdom That Plants Seeds
In her memoir *Searching for Sunday*, Rachel Held Evans describes returning to church not because she found perfect answers but because she found a community...
This is tradition perspectives on wisdom, drawing on James 1:5.
In her memoir Searching for Sunday, Rachel Held Evans describes returning to church not because she found perfect answers but because she found a community willing to sit with imperfect questions. That image — people gathered around a table with more uncertainty than certainty — captures something essential about what James means when he writes, "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach."…
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