NASHVILLE — Progressive Christian author Rachel Held Evans died in Tennessee on Saturday after spending two weeks in a hospital for treatment for an infection and brain seizures. Sarah Bessey, a writer and friend of Evans’, says she died in Nashville early Saturday morning, surrounded by her husband and friends. Evans was a resident of Dayton, Tennessee. Dan Evans wrote on his wife’s blog April 19 that she was placed in a medically induced coma after her brain experienced seizures during treatment for an infection. “She was leading in a space where a lot of people in the church were silent.”Evans was the mother of two children.

Source: National Post May 04, 2019 21:45 UTC