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A young woman's suicide puts focus on church's counseling for LGBT Catholics
Alana Chen's death has focused attention on how religious institutions handle the question of sexuality in their counseling, especially when the counselor's faith teaches that homosexuality is wrong or sinful. Last year, Colorado banned gay conversion therapy for minors. That ban, however, exempts religious counselors.
At her funeral, Rachel Held Evans is memorialized with quotes from her own writings
After her unexpected death at age 37 at the beginning of May, Rachel Held Evans' loved ones gathered June 1 to remember her in a funeral service.
