Rachel held Evans. She wasn't a preacher, but she did preach.

You wrote a blog post called Blessed Are the Uncool that just went viral.

You probably got it on Facebook. That's like where it really blew up.

I got it from several people.

This is from an interview she did a few years back.

The posts that really take off like that are when I've said something that a lot of people have been feeling, but they weren't really sure how to articulate.

Rachel was evangelical.

In her writing, it was all about changing what people thought about when they heard that word, evangelical.

And I think what that post was about was I was saying that even though I'm young and people think I want a big, cool show in church,

that what I really want is just an authentic community of people where Jesus and his friends

who were uncool would fit in. Because there's sort of this assumption that, oh, you're young,

you're 30 or under, you must want like fog machines in church. And like if we do that,

then the young people will come. Yeah. And if we just like add a rock band and do a light show, then the young will come.

And that's not really actually what I want.

I don't have a problem with those things.

What Rachel wanted was to reach out to a group of religious people, deeply religious people,

people who may have felt the evangelical church had left them behind.

They were gay or divorced, maybe they'd had an abortion.

Online, Rachel became well-known enough that a lot of people simply referred to her by her

initials, R-H-E.

It's just an easier way, you know, spelling out Rachel,s, R-H-E. It's just an easier way.

You know, spelling out Rachel Hald Evans takes up how many characters on Twitter.

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