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mmmirele5/04/2019 10:10:57 am PDT

I am completely shocked. Writer Rachel Held Evans, who started out in Evangelicalism but who moved from there into the Episcopal Church (and was vilified by many of her former co-religionists) has died. She was 37.

Rachel Held Evans, an influential progressive Christian writer and speaker who cheerfully challenged American evangelical culture, died on Saturday at a hospital in Nashville. Evans, 37, entered the hospital in mid-April with the flu, and then had a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics, as she wrote on Twitter several weeks ago. According to her husband, Dan Evans, she then developed sustained seizures. Doctors put her in a medically induced coma, but some seizures returned when her medical team attempted to wean her from the medications that were maintaining her coma. Her condition worsened on Thursday morning, and her medical team discovered severe swelling of her brain. She died early on Saturday morning.

slate.com

The article/obituary, by Ruth Graham, gives a pretty good overview of Held Evans’ religious trajectory.

I am completely stunned and shocked.

ETA: It’s now trending on Twitter.