How Rachel Held-Evans Lit the Way

a Yes, And… Theology reflection

Jennifer Alexander-Allen
3 min readMay 5, 2021

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Rachel Held-Evans and her public faith lit a way for me during a difficult season in my life. Her book Searching For Sunday helped bring me back to the roots of my faith. After walking away from the path of ministry because I could not reconcile the God presented by Evangelical Christianity with my identity as a queer, trans woman, I swore off religion.

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Jennifer Alexander-Allen

Writer. Queer Theologian -- Published in "When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience" -- Pronouns: she/they -- @queeringcaitlin