![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Evans died a few months ago tragically at the age of 37.Įvans believed that Americans continuously attempt to find a “theology of rightness in a world where rich white men are in charge and everybody else is exploited and quiet about it.” The antidote to this poison, she proclaimed, is not distance from scripture, but greater proximity to it – even intimacy with it. Evans grew up a fundamentalist in a household filled with grace, and gradually migrated away from fundamentalism to become a “progressive evangelical.” Her first book was entitled “Evolving in Monkey Town.” Another work of hers is “A Year of Biblical Womanhood.” Another work is “Searching for Sunday.” These titles are indicative of the power of her thought and writing. Rather, she was more attuned to the digital world and published from the vantage point of a young person trying to make church and scripture relevant and empowering – “taking theology off the high shelf and making it accessible.”Įvans grew up in Dayton, Tennessee, famous for the Scopes “monkey” trial of 1925 in which evolution was pitted against fundamentalism. Evans was a millennial theologian who has been very influential without following the traditional theologian career path of doctor’s degrees and seminary professorships. I recently read an article about Rachel Held Evans in The Christian Century. ![]() ![]() Photo Courtesy of Michigan Area, United Methodist Church. ![]()
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