Rachel has been featured in national broadcasts and publications including NPR, Slate, The BBC, The Washington Post, The Guardian (UK), The Times London, and The Huffington Post. Sometimes things just hurt and there’s no avoiding it. It’s a hope I learned from Rachel.I write these words not because I always feel them. Was it reasonable to assume I’d have that? She was fearless and was just very passionate about justice. No.But I have hope. This gaping raw wound in my life isn’t something I can fix. She left the world better than how she found it. But because I hope they will someday make up enough of me to matter. It’s a hope that takes delight in all the things that are still good.
Was it reasonable to assume I’d have that? The funeral for Rachel Held Evans was held this past weekend in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I think that's part of the reason why she pushed so hard at wanting it to do better.But even beyond all of that, she just - she said what people were longing for, what they were hoping for, what they were thinking or feeling. Official Web site of New York Times bestselling author and popular blogger Rachel Held Evans. But because I hope they will someday make up enough of me to matter. I’m not sure where life will take us from here. I’ve lost what was never mine to claim. Visit our website In that spirit we plan to provide a live stream of her funeral this Saturday, June 1st, at 2pm EDT. And she was illuminating it and writing about it and celebrating people who were pushing up against, you know, darkness in all of these places - that she was someone who pushed so hard into full LGBTQ inclusion in the church.
It was a - it was a big change, but honestly, her hunger for God, her sense of justice and fairness, her curiosity really was the thing that led her on that path - her huge heart for people.Yeah, it's an incredible journey, but it's one that she left as a trail for the rest of us to follow when we found ourselves in that place of saying, I don't know if I believe this anymore, or, what does this mean politically, or, what does this mean for my neighbors?GARCIA-NAVARRO: What do you think her legacy should be?BESSEY: You know, I feel like I can't even begin to imagine what all of her work that she has done will end up meaning for the world.
She was 37.Sarah Bessey is a fellow writer and a friend of Rachel Held Evans, and she joins us now. I mean, and she was such a good mom and a good wife, a good sister, a good friend to so many of us.GARCIA-NAVARRO: And she also had a large following in the evangelical community in both progressive and conservative circles, which is remarkable in these times.BESSEY: Yeah, it is. That would be a more full vision of what the kingdom of God actually looks like.GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's Sarah Bessey via Skype remembering her friend Rachel Held Evans. The person Rachel saw in me.
Therefore, comments that divert from this goal (ie … She left the world better than how she found it. It’s a hope that’s aware of the past, the present, and the future possibilities. She'd been hospitalized for the flu but suffered an allergic reaction to antibiotics.
We welcome your thoughts and discussion to our posts. I mean, I think that that was part of what Rachel did so incredibly well was she honored where she came from. She was a bestselling author on matters of faith and an advocate for a number of progressive issues. Rachel Held Evans has died. Angels death funeral Gospel grief hope Mary Magdalene Nadia Bolz-Weber Rachel Held Evans remembrance RHE story Tomb weeping. It’s a hope that’s fulfilled every time I remember I can still laugh at bad jokes, still be a friend to my friends, still love my children. But none of it changes the fact that Rachel is dead. I want to be just a bit more like the person I see reflected back in my edited self. Sure. Her funeral … Our goal is that our comment section helps us learn from one another and grow to be more like Christ.