Held Evans embodied a movement that emerged in the two-thousands among people who were becoming disillusioned with evangelicalism. The author of five popular books on Christianity, she employed self-deprecating wit and practical exegesis to critique the conservative evangelical subculture in which she was raised. “Sometimes you’ve got to make do with what you have,” he said.Īlthough she was only thirty-seven when she died, Held Evans had become a beloved figure in the landscape of American religion. He had brought a wheeled suitcase in which he had packed sauces wrapped in newspaper, and the Chinese greens and mushrooms that he feared would be nearly impossible to find in Chattanooga. He had travelled to Chattanooga to prepare dinner that evening for twenty close friends and family members of Rachel Held Evans, an influential Christian thinker and writer, who died unexpectedly in 2019. Chu, who is forty-four and slender, had learned to cook family-style Chinese meals from his mother and paternal grandmother. He was scouring the produce section for lemongrass and galangal. On a recent Saturday morning, Jeff Chu, a writer and ordinand in the Reformed Church in America-a small Protestant denomination-pushed a green grocery cart through a Whole Foods in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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