In the book co-authored with Matthew Paul Turner, Held Evans encourages children to “think about what makes you feel safe, what makes you feel loved, and what makes you feel brave. “Henry knows that Mommy wrote this,” Evans said. It’s the first book by Held Evans that he read to their children. The book that did appear in June - “What is God Like?” - has a special status for Evans. They have not declared hope and possibility, justice and welcome.”Įvans said Held Evans was working on four children’s books when she died he hopes all of them eventually will be published. “Many in the church have not proclaimed good news. “I am not afraid to say that many in the church have been agents of death for many women, for queer and trans people, for people of color, for immigrants and refugees, for disabled people, for all manner of minority,” she writes. She recalls wondering how many of her fellow evangelicals could consider those outside their own faith to be condemned to hell. She recounts her childhood and youth, growing up in a deeply religious family, winning the Best Christian Attitude award at her elementary school in Alabama and serving as president of her high school’s Bible Club.ĭoubts about her faith surfaced while attending college. The book’s prologue is a tribute to women - those in the Bible, and more recent figures from Held Evans’ own family tree. “She didn’t shy away from naming those things, but she always emphasized what is right about our faith and what was good about what Jesus had to say.” “So many of us are fixated on what’s wrong with Christianity or the church,” Chu said in an interview. Among them was a New York Times bestseller, “A Year of Biblical Womanhood.'

Chu expanded it fivefold, scouring through Held Evans’ blog posts and speeches, and through passages that were cut from her previous books. That manuscript was roughly 11,000 words in length. The book opens with a poignant forward by her husband, Daniel Evans, and an introduction by Jeff Chu, an author, editor and close friend of the couple who was recruited by Daniel to flesh out her unfinished manuscript. “Wholeheartedness means that we can ask bold questions, knowing that God loves us not just in spite of them but also because of them,” she writes in the new book.

It's addressed to Christians like herself who sometimes wrestle with doubts about their faith yet do not want to abandon it. Next week, her final book for adults is being published, titled “Wholehearted Faith'. Last June, a children’s book she’d been working on was published posthumously and soon topped the picture-book bestseller lists. NEW YORK – Christian author Rachel Held Evans left behind a legion of loyal readers when she died in May 2019, at the age of 37.

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