Rachel Held Evans: Remembering a 'torch-bearer', an 'arsonist', a 'prophet with a pen' by info@share.sv | May 7, 2019 | Political Rachel Held Evans: Remembering a 'torch-bearer', an 'arsonist', a 'prophet with a pen' The reason that a writer as young as Evans mattered to so many is, religiously-speaking, she was not just a writer. Evans was a prophet with a pen.