People attend the funeral of Rachel Held Evans at First Centenary United Methodist Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., on June 1, 2019. Video screenshot
Need to know: Monday, June 3, 2019
At her funeral, Rachel Held Evans is memorialized with quotes from her own writings
Her friend Nadia Bolz-Weber gave a sermon saying, "Though theologically she knows that death knows no sting, “it stings now."
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