Some books you have to read while literally touching grass. 😬

Researching the Alt-Right is like sticking your hand into a hole just KNOWING there’s spiders in there but also really needing whatever is in that hole.

YES

P.S. Nothing like building out your conspiracy board and finding that several people on it live in your area and move in your networks. 😬#WelcomeToIdaho

Somebody who crafts the perfect conspiracy board app could make a lot of money right now.

The "trans issue" we should all actually be worried about isn't transgenderism, it's transhumanism. Do you know that a bunch of these Silicon Valley types believe that tech will eventually allow humans to transcend our bodies? P.S. I need to re-read C.S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength."

I was telling my husband that someday I would like to try a Viking cruise. He said, "I don't know ... it seems like it would just be a lot of old people sitting around and the deck and reading." I'm like "You just described my dream vacation."

One thing I am learning as I research Silicon Valley pronatalism is that we are going to need to re-assess the usefulness of the "secular" vs "religious" categories going forward.

In researching fundamentalism and far-right movements I often end up having to read people’s self-published manifestos and it’s the absolute worst because they are always SO disorganized and like 500 pages long.

My husband and I both like to travel but as I explained to him recently, for me the appeal of travel is having a different environment to read in.

Should I be worried that my husband and kids are binge-watching YouTube videos about keeping bears as pets? 👀

This is quite good

I just saw a reference to Calvin & Hobbes out of context and I assumed it was about John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. I need to get a life. 😂

✨New Episode!✨Why do we keep falling for celebrity Christians like Jim Bakker, Bill Gothard, Mark Driscoll and Ravi Zacharias? It’s not a personal problem - it’s a structural one that’s been 500 years in the making. youtu.be/cnrOvNPzXRY?...

✨New Episode!✨Why do we keep falling for celebrity Christians like Jim Bakker, Bill Gothard, Mark Driscoll and Ravi Zacharias? It’s not a personal problem - it’s a structural one that’s been 500 years in the making. youtu.be/cnrOvNPzXRY?...

This Roman Empire is low-key mid.

And this one looks like it’s smiling 😍

The Youth say that Instagram is the scene right now so I've been trying to put in some time there but I don't get how people are editing all these video ON THEIR PHONES.😶 I've done a few Instagram reels using their in-platform video editing tool and I think my fingers are too fat for this world.

ICYMI: Are complementarians inheriting an exaggerated form of patriarchy, from the very people who are trying to smash it? racheldarnall.substack.com/p/are-comple...

New from me! I haven't done a regular Substack post for a while, but this research find was just too jaw-dropping not to share with you guys. substack.com/home/post/p-...

New from me! I haven't done a regular Substack post for a while, but this research find was just too jaw-dropping not to share with you guys. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Angel Studios is trying to jump on the Bridgerton trend and I can't wait to see what fresh horror is in store for us.

Me explaining any historical concept in Georgian or Regency England:

It's amazing how fast I can put a video together when the technology just ... works?

Once, several years ago, I was complaining to a good friend about how I wanted to write a certain non-fiction book but it was so hard to find the time to do it. She (bless her heart) asked, "Couldn't you write just like, one page a day?" If you're a writer, you'll know. You'll know.

The editor of the Fundamentals had family ties to the KKK??? Even I did not see that one coming. youtube.com/shorts/1O_05...

I used bbq sauce instead of salad dressing on my chicken salad.

I hear my 8yo yelling at my 10yo: "I hate you so much!!" I call her in and ask why. Reader, they were pretending to be Anakin and Obi-wan on Mustafar. 💞

The editor of the Fundamentals had family ties to the KKK??? Even I did not see that one coming. youtube.com/shorts/1O_05...

"When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink (of coffee)?" - Baptist proverb, probably

Ba ha ha, look what I found at the thrift store 😂 who else knows what this is?

How am I just finding out about this movie/book now?? youtu.be/tjPd7R-1n0s?...

Does anyone else feel like social media is just harder these days? Across all platforms? I'm having so much more difficulty getting traction on stuff than I used to.

🧵In "The Color of Compromise," @jemartisby.bsky.social says, "At several points in American history—the colonial era, Reconstruction, the demise of Jim Crow—Christians could have confronted racism instead of compromising." This episode is about one of those moments. youtu.be/e3GfXYMz7hE?...

Book haul from Kahului, Maui.

How’d a nice little academic movement about Christian doctrine get mixed up with White Supremacy? In this episode we’re visiting the scenic but sinister world of Scarlett O’Hara, R.L. Dabney and southern romanticism to find out. youtu.be/e3GfXYMz7hE?...

How’d a nice little academic movement about Christian doctrine get mixed up with White Supremacy? In this episode we’re visiting the scenic but sinister world of Scarlett O’Hara, R.L. Dabney and southern romanticism to find out. youtu.be/e3GfXYMz7hE?...

I’m leaving for sister trip to Maui on Thursday (woo!) and I am working SO HARD to get ep 5 of These Troubled Times wrapped before I go because I can’t wait to share it with you guy. I get to talk about Gone With the Wind, R.L. Dabney and LARP-ing!! Say a prayer to the video-editing gods for me.

Yup. The world says, "Look at those young people on their cell phones all the time with no social skills" then makes it so that you can't do ANYTHING - grocery shopping, banking, communicating, or even ordering at a restaurant - without being on your phone. 🫠

"This could have been a moment for some serious, Southern soul-searching, but why get introspective when instead you can dress up as Sir Lancelot and knock your cousin off a horse?" I just wrote this sentence for my next "These Troubled Times" episode and I'm obnoxiously delighted with myself.

WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS: First, they tell women "Submit to men to save marriage, the family and society!" Then when you do, they say "How dare you emasculate that poor man by expecting him to be faithful!" (and yes, this is a real image found in the wild on facebook)

I just sent off a major writing project I am EXTREMELY excited about for review. Now to do all the laundry and housecleaning from the last ten days…

Will anything ever be as sexy as Obi-wan Kenobi force-jumping down to that platform on Utapau and saying “hello there”?

One thing I keep noticing in all these Quiverfull books that I'm reading is that the authors talk about reaching their convictions several years into their fertile years, so by the time they decide to "let God be the Lord of the womb," they're not realistically going to have more than 7-8.

Turns out, Americans have always loved a good conspiracy theory. Find out how today's "do your own research" trend connects to early American "common sense theory." youtu.be/FdmUenS_kKE?...

Nobody tells you this, but one of the most important skills you’ll ever learn as a writer is to know what time of day (or night) everything you write starts to look really stupid and embarrassing, because that’s when you should stop, slowly back away from the keyboard and come back tomorrow.

You know what would be cool? Getting my history YouTube channel sponsored by a used book outlet. @thriftbookish.bsky.social ? @halfpricebooks.bsky.social ? Honestly you could probably just pay me in books.

Usually, weekends are for audiobooks, but in this case the weekend was for going to @halfpricebooks.bsky.social

I want to do too many things.