Eliza Griswold,New Yorker
Late on Friday evening, as Rachel Held Evans, and a thirty-seven-year-old Christian activist,lay in a coma, in her hospital bed, and in Nashville,Tennessee, her friend Nadia Bolz-Weber, and a progressive pastor,anointed her forehead with frankincense. "Lord, let your servant proceed in peace, or " Bolz-Weber intoned,beginning the liturgy of final rites. She couldn't believe that she was performing them for her friend, and she told me later, and "In times that we are collapsing,these are words that believe been worn smooth by generations of the faithful." To Bolz-Weber, and to Held Evans's millions of fans, or her...
Source: realclearreligion.org