Rachel Held Evans
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Rachel Held Evans (née Rachel Grace Held, 1981-2019), an American Christian columnist, blogger, and author.
Her book A Year of Biblical Womenhood was a New York Times bestseller in e-book non-fiction, and searching for Sunday produced a New York Times bestseller nonfiction paperback.
Early life and education
Evans was born in Alabama to Robin and Peter Held and spent her early years in Birmingham, Alabama. When she was 14 years old, she and her family moved to Dayton, Tennessee, where her father took over as a Bryan College administrator. She attended Rhea County High School and then transferred to Bryan College, where she majored in English literature. In 2003, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
Personal life
Dan Evans, Evans' collegiate boyfriend, married Evans in 2003. Both parents had two children. She was an Episcopalian who attended St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Cleveland, Tennessee. She no longer identified herself as an evangelical at the time of her death, due to the movement's close connection with the Christian right in the United States.
Career
Evans moved from college to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he worked as an intern for the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Evans returned to Dayton, Texas, where she worked full time for The Herald-News, the local newspaper. She went from full-time to writing pro bono as the newspaper's humor columnist in 2006; in 2007, she received an award for Best Personal Humor Column from the Tennessee Press Association. She continued to write freelance articles for national newspapers and started blogging.
Evans first wrote in Monkey Town in September 2008, when she was signed with Zondervan for her first book, Evolving. The book describes her transformation from religious certainty to a faith that accepts doubt and questioning; the title is based on the Scope Monkey Trial in Dayton. In October 2012, she wrote A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master. She reveals how she survived a year of living a Biblical lifestyle. Evans appeared on The Today Show, gaining national media attention for the book. Evans revived Evolving in Monkey Town in 2014 with the new name Faith Unraveled.
"Want millennials back in the pews," she wrote in the Washington Post in 2015. "Don't try to make church 'cool,'" says the narrator. She self-identified as a millennial and expressed her dissatisfaction with churches' attempts to attract more millenials because they primarily concentrated on the church experience, which "are not the key to leading millennials back to God in a long and meaningful way." Young people don't simply want a better show."
Evans wrote an editorial for Vox defending her position as a "pro-life Christian" candidate and her vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election.
Held Evans and Sarah Bessey co-founded the Evolving Faith Conference, an annual gathering of young democratic Christians in 2018. About 200 people attended the first conference in Montreat, North Carolina, but there were 1,400 attendees. After her death in May of that year, Jeff Chu joined them as co-organizer for the October 2019 conference, which became "in part a salute to readers, associates, and devotees of Rachel Held Evans."