The Last Words of Rachel Held Evans
The New York Times
She gave voice to a generation of wandering evangelicals wrestling with their faith. Two years after her sudden death at age 37, Rachel Held Evans has one more message.
Two years ago, the sudden death of Rachel Held Evans at age 37 left a community of spiritual seekers in shock and heartbreak. A best-selling author and provocative thinker, Ms. Evans and her work had offered a home for a diaspora of believers wrestling with evangelical Christianity, a community yearning to seek God, find safety amid doubt, and include those whom the churches of their youth had rejected.
She also left the beginnings of an unfinished manuscript, what she had hoped would be her sixth book: an exploration of spiritual wholeness, to be called “Wholehearted Faith.”
In the months that followed, Daniel Jonce Evans, Ms. Evans’s widower, gathered the 11,000 words she had already written, along with some of her other unpublished writings, and asked her friend and fellow author Jeff Chu to knit them together to finish what she had begun.
