Chu expanded it fivefold, scouring through Held Evans’ blog posts and speeches, and through passages that were cut from her previous books. That manuscript was roughly 11,000 words in length. The book opens with a poignant forward by her husband, Daniel Evans, and an introduction by Jeff Chu, an author, editor and close friend of the couple who was recruited by Daniel to flesh out her unfinished manuscript. “Wholeheartedness means that we can ask bold questions, knowing that God loves us not just in spite of them but also because of them,” she writes in the new book. Her final book for adults is being published, titled “Wholehearted Faith.” It’s addressed to Christians like herself who sometimes wrestle with doubts about their faith yet do not want to abandon it. Last June, a children’s book she’d been working on was published posthumously and soon topped the picture-book bestseller lists. Christian author Rachel Held Evans left behind a legion of loyal readers when she died in May 2019, at the age of 37.
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