News Rachel Held Evans: Remembering a ‘torchbearer,’ an ‘arsonist,’ a ‘prophet with a pen’ May 7, 2019Jonathan Merritt, Opinion contributorComments Off on Rachel Held Evans: Remembering a ‘torchbearer,’ an ‘arsonist,’ a ‘prophet with a pen’ The reason a writer as young as Evans mattered to so many is that, religiously speaking, she was not just a writer. Evans was a prophet with a pen.