I think Adah Price-a narrator in Barbara Kingsolver’s book The Poisonwood Bible-says it best.
In many ways, your book is a chronicle of your faith crisis, and one of the big issues you wrestle with is what you describe as the "cosmic lottery." Could you describe this term, and how it posed problems for your faith? My goal isn’t really to answer all those questions, but rather provide a little companionship for the journey.
I wrote it with young (evangelical) adults in mind, but I hope it’s helpful to anyone who wrestles with tough questions about faith. Who is the audience you'd most like this book to reach? I think this happens on both an individual and collective level, whenever circumstances prompt Christians to reexamine what it really means to follow Jesus. In addition to being a fun play on words, the title points to a larger theme in the book: that sometimes faith has to adapt to change in order to survive. I’m really glad Zondervan decided to keep it, even after I submitted a list of alternate titles for them to consider, (including my husband’s suggestion of “Maturing in Ape Village,” just for fun). Why did you title the book Evolving in Monkey Town?īeing from Dayton, Tennessee-home of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925-the title was just too irresistible. In this interview, she discusses some of the problems that led her to question her faith (hell, "the cosmic lottery," etc), the damage done by "false fundamentals," and what parts of Christianity she'd like to see evolve. In spite of the spiritual crisis she recounts in the book, author Rachel Held Evans hasn't abandoned her faith, just allowed it to evolve a little bit (hence the title). It's a great read, full of provocative insights and disturbing questions about Christianity-the sorts of things that lead many Christians of a certain age to abandon their faith. Evolving in Monkey Townis a new book by a young evangelical author recounting her spiritual journey as she's moved from the "all questions are answered" certainty of her evangelical youth to the somewhat more complicated, "questions are ok" place she now finds herself.
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