Rachel Held Evans Tribute Episode: 2018 Interview “Loving, Leaving & Finding the Church”

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Jen Hatmaker

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🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

We lost a beloved friend, teacher, and true faith groundbreaker this week. Her teachings, writings, and insight into the Christian faith have quietly revolutionized the lives for many whose religious upbringing imposed limits and yielded scars. Because of Rachel, more women than ever have begun pursuing their place in the pulpit. Because of Rachel, the way has been paved for all of us who struggle with questions, doubts and failings in the faith to speak openly about it. Her passing seems sudden, and too soon. But right now, we are clinging to her warmth and wisdom in hopes we can continue to be the light she always was for us. In that spirit, we’re re-airing her conversation from last year about her fierce love of the church, even in the midst of her doubt. In Rachel’s own words from that interview, “Ours is a God of death and resurrection—and that God can take anything and bring it to life.” In moments like this, we realize Rachel’s work planted seeds of hope that will bloom across generations.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remi. Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host,
0:06.7	Jen Hatmaker, my mom. She writes books and speaks to crowds, but she mostly loves talking
0:13.2	to amazing people on this podcast every week. Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed
0:18.9	the show.
0:19.9	Hey everybody, it is Jen Hatmaker and I'm so glad that you're here. So, last week we
0:28.9	finished our Faith series with the absolutely wonderful La Cray and we're slated to start
0:36.0	a new series today. But as most of you probably know, we lost our very beloved friend this
0:44.0	week, Rachel Held Evans. Friend is so many of us since your friend and a good one. And
0:55.4	it's not fair. And she was 37 and she had a devoted husband and a three year old son
1:03.7	and a baby girl who is going to turn one next week. And it's a real loss to us as her friends
1:11.4	and colleagues. It's a loss to the world. And so I went back this week. Rachel was in
1:19.2	the first Faith series that we did here on the podcast and I went back and I just listened
1:26.1	to the whole thing. And she was a real, real treasure and hearing her voice and sitting
1:35.7	under her beautiful leadership once again was just so precious. And so we just wanted
1:46.4	to rerun her episode this week. We wanted to have Rachel actually closed out the Faith series.
1:53.2	And I wanted you to put, I want to put her teaching in front of you in case you didn't hear
1:58.5	her the first time around. Everything that made Rachel's influence and authority and giftedness
2:07.1	special is included in this conversation. We touched on her best work. And we talked about her
2:17.5	book that was current at the time inspired, which is my favorite of all her books. It's a little
2:24.3	hard to, it's hard a little bit because we also, I laughed too, you will too. Rachel's really
2:30.9	funny, but she was actually in labor with her baby Harper. While we recorded this show, the first
2:39.2	time in labor. And I suggested to her that she named her baby Jennifer because nobody's using
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