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Here we are in a religiously-infused season.

And in a world in which more and more of us experience ourselves to be religious nomads,

wanderers, even refugees.

This deep reality of our life together is often lost or simplified in analyses of the decline

of traditional religious identity, of the rise of the spiritual but not religious.

There is abundantly, alongside all of that, a rising theological and liturgical searching,

a passionate calling towards service that echoes the heart of the great traditions.

This is nowhere more true than around the boundaries of Christianity, and no person has

given more winsome voice to it than Rachel Held Evans.

She wrote about faith, doubt, and life in the Bible belt in books like Faith Unraveled,

Searching for Sunday, and a year of Biblical womanhood.

She died tragically at 37 in 2019 of complications from the flu, leaving behind two very young

children in a world of bereaved friends and followers.

But now a book on which she'd been working before her death, whole-hearted faith, has

come into the world, midwifeed and completed by her dear friend and colleague, the journalist

Jeff Chu.

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