

In her second book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Thomas Nelson, 2012), she undertook to observe all the biblical commands regarding women - or as many of them as she could realistically manage - to their literal extreme.

Her first book, Evolving in Monkey Town (Zondervan, 2010), articulates the doubts about creation and hell that ultimately destroyed her childhood faith. She was immediately and intensely mourned on Twitter, her preferred social media platform and a Christian subcultural space she helped shape.Įvans rose to prominence in the early 2000s as a blogger. She left behind her husband, two very young children, and a theological legacy that will take years to unravel. Early Saturday morning, May 5, 2019, Rachel Held Evans, only thirty-seven, died suddenly after a brief hospitalization.
