The Afterlife of Rachel Held Evans

I followed her on Twitter, before her death in 2019 at just age 37. She was the thinking person's evangelical. Pride of Dayton TN.

"With humility and openness, Held Evans helped reintroduce a mode of spiritual inquiry in America that was based in seeking mystery, not certainty. "She made Christianity seem like a decent place to be while you asked questions, rather than something you had to abandon to be free," Kathryn Lofton, a professor of religious studies at Yale, said. Held Evans quickly became a major spiritual figure, appearing on television shows and serving as one of President Obama's faith advisers. "I think Rachel would be the first person to scoff at any attempt to beatify her," Sarah Bessey, her friend, told me. "She's one of the few spiritual teachers I've known who had the humility to regularly ask herself, 'What if I'm wrong?' "

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