Rachel Held Evans, Christian writer and speaker, dies at age 37
Evans’s books A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching for Sunday, and Inspired traced the evolution of her faith.
Rachel Held Evans. Photo courtesy of Maki Evans.
Rachel Held Evans, a popular progressive Christian writer and speaker, died May 4 at age 37 after a brief illness.
Evans had been in a medically induced coma for several weeks and never returned to an alert state. Her husband, Dan Evans, wrote in an update on her website that doctors found her brain was experiencing constant seizures while she was receiving treatment for an infection. Extensive swelling of her brain caused damage that was not survivable.
Evans gathered a large following through her blog posts and books, including the New York Times best seller A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching for Sunday, and, most recently, Inspired.
