Rachel Held Evans, a progressive Christian author whose writing challenged traditional evangelical views on politics and the role of women and LGBTQ members of the church, died on Saturday. She was 37.
Evans was hospitalized in mid-April for what she described in a tweet as "a flu + UTI combo and a severe allergic reaction to the antibiotics they gave me." She was placed in a medically-induced coma after her brain began suffering constant seizures, according to updates posted online by her husband, Daniel Evans.
On Saturday, he wrote that she had experienced extensive brain swelling after being weaned out of the coma.
"This entire experience is surreal," he wrote. "I keep hoping it's a nightmare from which I'll awake. I feel like I'm telling someone else's story."
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