I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. He’s my conversation partner this hour, and what a conversation - refreshingly transcending the arguments, caricatures, and excesses that are so defining of public religiosity articulating a spacious understanding of God and grief, belonging and searching, that meet this changed world Rachel did not live to see, but speaks to still. She died tragically at 37, in 2019, of complications from the flu, leaving behind two very young children and a world of bereaved friends and followers.īut now a book on which she’d been working before her death, Wholehearted Faith, has come into the world, midwifed and completed by her dear friend and colleague, the journalist Jeff Chu. 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. 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. 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 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. Krista Tippett, host: 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. He’s Krista’s wonderful conversation partner this hour - articulating a spacious understanding of God and grief, searching and belonging, for this changed world Rachel did not live to see, but speaks to still. Now her dear friend, journalist and preacher Jeff Chu, has midwifed her unfinished last book, Wholehearted Faith, into the world. And no person has given more winsome voice to it than Rachel Held Evans, who died suddenly at the age of 37 in 2019. This is nowhere more true than around the boundaries of Christianity. Yet 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 deep reality of our life together is often simplified in analyses of the decline of traditional religious identity, of the rise of the spiritual-but-not-religious. 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, misfits, even refugees.
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