Rachel Held Evans died yesterday. I grieve her loss. She was only 37 and the mother of two young
children. She was also a Millennial who addressed the issues of faith and culture from that perspective. Rachel Held Evans grew up, and still lived
in, Dayton, Tennessee and graduated from Bryan College (Think Scopes Monkey
Trial). She wrote about growing up in
that conservative environment in her book Faith
Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions. Another book I would recommend is Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving and
Finding the Church.
It is ironic that in her last blog, posted on Ash
Wednesday, she reflected on death.
“It strikes me today that
the liturgy of Ash Wednesday teaches something that nearly everyone can agree
on. Whether you are part of a church or not, whether you believe today or your
doubt, whether you are a Christian or an atheist or an agnostic or a so-called
“none” (whose faith experiences far transcend the limits of that label) you
know this truth deep in your bones: “Remember that you are dust and to dust you
will return.”
“Death is a part of life.”
“My prayer for you this
season is that you make time to celebrate that reality, and to grieve that
reality, and that you will know you are not alone.”
Lord, I thank you for the life of Rachel Held Evans. My desire is to live her legacy and be Jesus
in a broken world.
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