Rachel Darnall

@trueconsolation.bsky.social

Quiverfull baby, homeschool alumnus and one-time stay-at-home daughter. M.A. Theological Studies. Host of "These Troubled Times" podcast, co-host of "It's a Man's World" for @anastasiscenter.bsky.social Gently stirring the evangelical pot since 2017.

Dear Christian Bluesky: Please pray for a close family member of mine who had to have emergency surgery this week and has no health insurance. And please pray that we as a nation would come to our senses and support healthcare for all so no one has to be in this position. 🙏💔

I read lots of stuff I don't like, for research, but some are more unpleasant than others. I'm sitting here just KNOWING that I'm going to have to read/listen to a bunch of Jordan Peterson stuff and it make me want to cry because I feel like he was genetically engineered to annoy me.

"When I married Ma, that beautiful Elma Karvenon, that I loved so much, I felt that I was the most happy man in the world. It seemed that I had married a queen, not just a common peasant girl." - from my paternal great-grandpa's memoirs. ❤️

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🧵We've lived in Oregon, Washington and now Idaho. For years, we've just come to expect that for part of our summer we'll be inside because of smoke from fires. This summer is no different - I'm looking out the window and the sky looks like the color of a Goodwill couch donated by a chainsmoker.

Went to the Odyssey last night and I have no notes. It was just superb. Also I will always die on the hill that Lupita N’yongo is the most beautiful woman on planet earth and the obvious racism exhibited every time a black woman appears on screen is getting really tiresome.

I haven't read much fiction lately because who has the time, but my recent research on the tech-trad alliance is leading me to believe that if we want to know what's coming next, we should probably be reading obscure sci-fi because that's apparently what the tech and trad people are reading.

This is why I hardly ever comment on stuff. I just spent 30-40 minutes of time I should be writing, responding to someone who wants a graduate-level essay, fully-sourced, on something I said I "suspect" may happen. Nobody's paying me for this.

Behind every movement that says we need to stop paying attention to secular experts and just "go by what the Bible says," there's usually a discredited (secular) academic in search of an uncritical audience for his half-baked ideas.

Every time I see one of those "I did xyz to see my husband's reaction" videos, I can't stop thinking about the fact that the dude giving his "spontaneous reaction" has a tripod with a camera on it in front of his face.