Greenville College Welcomes Rachel Held Evans to Campus February 6 and 7

Published: April 13, 2021

Greenville College is pleased to welcome Rachel Held Evans to campus on Thursday, Feb. 6 and Friday, Feb. 7. Evans is an award winning Christian author, blogger and speaker whose blog receives over a quarter of a million visits per month and features a range of topics regarding faith, doubt and culture.

Evans books include Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions (Zondervan 2010), which explores the relationship between faith, doubt and tough questions and A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head and Calling Her Husband Master (Thomas Nelson, 2012), a 2012 New York Times best seller which documents her year of following all the Bibles instructions for women as literally as possible. She has been featured in interviews on The View, The Today Show, NPR, Slate, The BBC, The Washington Post, The Guardian (UK), The Times London, The Huffington Post, Oprah.com, and was named one of Christianity Todays 50 Women You Should Know in Oct. 2012.

There will be a meet and greet reception with complimentary coffee on Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. at Jos Java and at 9:30 p.m. Held Evans will speak at Vespers in Whitlock Music Center. On Feb. 7 at 9:30 a.m., she will speak during Chapel in Whitlock Music Center about her latest book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood. Her visit is being sponsored by Greenville College Chapel and the Greenville College Student Association (GCSA).

These events are open to the public. For more information, please contact Lori Gaffner at lori.gaffner@greenville.edu.