By Challenging Evangelicals, She Changed Them

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran. Today, we return to the story of Rachel Held Evans and speak to her husband, Daniel, as he heads into his first holiday season since her death. In her absence, the community she created still engages with her work online. “It tells me there’s a lot of pain in the world,” Mr. Evans said. “I find hope that there are people not yet born who may still read her words.” Guests: Elizabeth Dias, who covers religion for The Times and Daniel Evans, Rachel Held Evans’s husband. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:Rachel Held Evans, the best-selling author who challenged conservative Christianity and gave voice to a generation of wandering evangelicals wrestling with their faith, passed away in May after experiencing excessive brain swelling.

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0:26.0	Hey, it's Michael.
0:32.0	All this week, the daily is revisiting our favorite episodes of the year, listening
0:36.8	back, and then hearing what's happened since they first ran.
0:41.0	Today, we return to the story of Rachel Held Evans.
0:45.8	It's Tuesday, December 24.
0:50.1	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow.
1:00.7	Today, in a brief but prolific career, a young writer asked whether evangelical Christianity
1:08.5	could change in doing so.
1:11.7	She changed it.
1:13.8	My colleague Natalie Kittroff speaks to a religion reporter Elizabeth Dias about the legacy
1:19.8	of Rachel Held Evans.
1:23.5	It's Monday, June 3.
1:28.2	It's always interesting to me as the religion reporter for the New York Times, which spiritual
1:33.8	figures break out into the mainstream.
1:37.4	And I think the last time I wrote in Obituary was for Billy Graham.
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