(RNS) — After her unexpected death at age 37 at the beginning of May, Rachel Held Evans’ loved ones gathered Saturday (June 1) to remember her in a funeral service.

The service was held at First Centenary United Methodist Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. Many of the writer’s friends followed along from a livestream of the service hosted on her website.

During the service, Twitter was filled with remembrances and outpourings of love for Held Evans under the hashtags #becauseofRHE and #rememberingRHE.

Held Evans’ casket, topped with a bouquet of yellow flowers, was carried up the aisle of the church at the beginning of the service, followed by her husband, Daniel Evans, and their two young children.

“She made me better than I was before I met her,” Daniel Evans wrote in a blog post on Thursday. “She left the world better than how she found it. For that, I will always be grateful.”

The service was ecumenical but drew from the Episcopal Church’s funeral liturgy, Held Evans’ adopted church.

The funeral eulogy was delivered by Rev. Brian Ward, Held Evans’ youth pastor in high school, who knew her when she was “a goofy and brilliant teenager.”

Ward said that being her youth pastor was not easy because Held Evans was constantly asking questions and challenging him.

“She had zero tolerance for inauthenticity,” Ward said.

He…

Archaeologists working on ruins in an ancient port city near Alexandria believe they have uncovered the oldest church ever discovered in Egypt. Researchers said the church — with walls likely built in the shape of a cross — probably dates back to the 4th century AD. Such architecture was common in places of worship at that time. 

Dr. Krzysztof Babraj and a team from Kraków’s Museum of Archaeology in Poland were working on the ruins of an ancient Basilica when they discovered an even older structure below its floor. 

The find in the ancient port city of Marea is “likely to offer new insights into the growth of early Christianity in Egypt and elsewhere in the Mediterranean,” according to FaithWire. “Towards the end of the last research season under the basilica, we came across remains in the form of walls,” Babraj said. “It turned out, they were the outer walls of an even older church.”

The structure’s limestone walls, coupled with ceramic pots and glass fragments found inside, helped the researchers estimate its age at mid-4^thcentury.

“It is, therefore, one of the oldest Christian temples found in Egyptian territories, today,” Babraj said.

The archaeologists noted that the older church was long forgotten after a major earthquake in the 8^thcentury AD destroyed the Basilica, crumbling its masonry and pillars onto the original church, burying it in…

Live Action founder Lila Rose recently shared on Twitter that her organization has been banned from showing ads on the platform unless they delete the majority of the pro-life content on both their Twitter feed and their website. Rose’s announcement came after a lengthy back and forth with the social media giant in which Live Action repeatedly saw their ads banned by Twitter even though they contained similar content, but a different message from those run by Planned Parenthood.

Twitter told Live Action they can show ads again when they no longer carry content that violates their terms of service. They specified three particular categories of content they want to see deleted: information about abortion procedures, investigations of Planned Parenthood, and all ultrasound images.

Twitter banned @LiveAction & my account from all ads. When we asked why, @Twitter said we could resume ads, only if we deleted the following content from our Twitter AND website:

-Anything about abortion procedures

-Investigations of Planned Parenthood

-All ultrasound images

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) June 4, 2019

Twitter is not prohibiting Live Action from posting to their own feed but has stifled their ability to pay for promoted tweets. Promoted tweets and ads allow a company to get their content in front of users who do not follow them. Through their actions, Twitter has allowed…