Monday, June 3, 2019

RHE: A voice not silent

Elizabeth Dias, NYT religion reporter

Rachel Held Evans continues to be heard a month after her death--this time in a podcast of the NYT product The Daily, "the biggest stories of our time, told by the best journalists in the world." .  It's aired five days a week on NPR. 

Today's podcast "The Legacy of Rachel Held Evans" features a conversation between NYT religion reporter Elizabeth Dias and Natalie Kitroeff of The Daily with audio portions from Rachel herself.

It's interesting to hear Rachel's voice.  

If you listen to this podcast and read Letha Dawson Scanzoni's thorough analysis on the website Christian Feminism Today, you've got most of what you need to know.

Of course, you could read one of her books.  I just ordered her first one, now called Faith Unraveled,  about growing up in Dayton, Tennessee, where the Scopes trial took place in 1925.  It's earlier title was Evolving in Monkey Town.

Thank you to Elizabeth Dias for all the excellent religion reporting she has done.  She has a BA from Wheaton College and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary.

See also her May 24 report in the NY Times on arrests for clergy sexual abuse in Michigan.  Her Twitter handle is @elizabethjdias.  

For more on Rachel Held Evans, see: https://www.christiancentury.org/article/people/doors-rachel-held-evans-wedged-open

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