Rachel Held Evans
Evangelicals must stop consulting themselves for guidance
By Blake Chastain — February 17, 2022
(RNS) — The United States cannot afford to give evangelicalism the benefit of the doubt again, and evangelicals cannot afford to just talk among themselves any longer.
Jeff Chu on the daunting charge to finish Rachel Held Evans’ final book
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 2, 2021
(RNS) — ‘The crucial thing to remember is that with God, death is never the end of the story,’ Rachel Held Evans wrote in her final book for adults.
‘What Is God Like?’ Late author Rachel Held Evans’ first children’s book invites questions
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 15, 2021
(RNS) — 'This is the first book of hers that they'll read,' Rachel Held Evans' husband, Daniel Jonce Evans, said of the couple's two young children.
Rachel Held Evans’ father on his daughter’s final days and the ongoing impact of her life
By Maina Mwaura — November 17, 2020
(RNS) — ‘I was her dad, and was proud to be so. I didn’t try to put the brakes on Rachel. Controversial issues were hers to play out,’ Peter Held tells RNS in an exclusive interview a year and a half after his daughter’s death.
Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them.
By Jonathan Merritt — June 17, 2020
(RNS) — One Alabama megachurch preacher is experiencing a cautionary tale about a central spiritual idea: What goes around comes around.
What would Rachel Held Evans do? Late author’s voice lives on through those she championed
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 4, 2020
(RNS) — One year after her death, it appears Evans isn’t finished speaking yet.
Barbara Brown Taylor: Reformation is a ‘delicious’ wilderness but lonely
By Roxanne Stone — October 18, 2019
DENVER (RNS) — The best-selling author, preacher and professor on finding community in an age of seeking.
Evolving Faith conference offers evangelical ‘refugees’ shelter
By Roxanne Stone — October 7, 2019
DENVER (RNS) — Nearly 2,500 attendees gathered in Denver for two days to seek community in what many called "the wilderness" of deconstruction. Speakers grappled with questions about faith, church, power and justice. Even as they also mourned the death of co-founder, Rachel Held Evans.
Spiritual adulting with author Alice Connor
By Jana Riess — July 18, 2019
Yeah, we screw up. In a wise and funny new book, author and campus minister Alice Connor says that is just part of the deal with being human.
‘Who will be our Rachel now?’ Progressives reflect on movement without Held Evans
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 20, 2019
(RNS) — Prominent progressive Christian thinkers like Bass who admire Evans’ work are mulling the answer as they consider Evans’ legacy and what’s next for their movement without one of its most prominent and beloved leaders.
Remembering a woman of valor: 4 gifts Rachel Held Evans gave us
By Katelyn Beaty — May 4, 2019
(RNS) — Instead of throwing out God or church, Rachel Held Evans demonstrated a robust Christian faith outside the bounds of evangelicalism, making sure that that world’s gatekeepers don’t have the final say about one’s standing before Christ.
Rest in peace, Rachel Held Evans
By Jana Riess — May 4, 2019
(RNS) — "Show me, Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is." — Psalm 39, as quoted by Rachel Held Evans in "Searching for Sunday"
Rachel Held Evans, Christian writer of honesty and humor, dies at age 37
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 4, 2019
(RNS) — Evans repeatedly made the best-seller lists with wise and funny chronicles of her faith, doubt, honest questions and evolving beliefs.
Supporters of hospitalized Christian author pool funds to cover medical costs
By Jack Jenkins — April 22, 2019
(RNS) — Friends, family and supporters of prominent Christian author Rachel Held Evans are pooling funds to help cover her medical expenses after she was hospitalized over the weekend and placed into a medically induced coma.
Fellow Christian writers start Twitter prayer chain as Rachel Held Evans is hospitalized
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 19, 2019
(RNS) — On Friday (April 19), the hashtag #PrayForRHE trended, forming a prayer chain for popular progressive Christian writer Rachel Held Evans as news spread she had been hospitalized.
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