The popular writer, who died Saturday, knew that asking questions wasn’t anathema to faith. What will we do without her?
, earning plenty of animus from conservative evangelicals along the way. Rachel Held Evans only ever punched up.
The public legacy that Rachel leaves is the gift of seeing a 2,000-year-old religion with fresh eyes. She did not fall prey to the cynicism that beleaguers so many former evangelicals when their faith changes. Instead, she cultivated hope. “Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys," she wrote in her book,"but it doesn't make us any better at telling the truth, which is that most of us are a frightening mix of good and evil, sinner and saint.
Her work continued to help others reshape the predominantly white and male Christianity of their youth, as the Vox TV critic Todd VanDerWerffon Saturday:"Rachel was a big part of me realizing Christianity could do more than build a wall between the straight, the cis, and the white and everyone else. She meant more to me than I even knew.
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