Rachel Darnall

What do people really mean when they say “fundamentalist”? Is it a serious theological category—or just a slur used to dismiss religious people who take their faith seriously? I'm discussing this and so much more on my new podcast! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_An...

A YouTube subscriber just commented on one of my videos, "Your English is amazing." 😂

Sneak peak of the next These Troubled Times episode! If you're not a subscriber yet, click here to follow me on YouTube! www.youtube.com/@TheseTroubl...

This podcast popped up on my YouTube feed last week, and it's really fascinated me. The host delves deep into the history leading up to the various Christian charlatans and would be tyrants who plague us today. Highly recommend.

“This book is less scientific assessment and more theological primal scream.” @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social , “Defying Tyrants: Following Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists”

I never trust anyone who unironically cites theirs, or anyone else's IQ.

It’s early voting seasons, peeps!

Picked this one up today - long-awaited! @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social

I made a friend at the Boise library’s used bookstore. She wrote down my name and number and is now looking for back issues of the Ladies’ Home Journal for me because she’s ✨INVESTED✨ now. I love library ladies so much.

This is flippin’ hilarious, but it’s also the entire problem with the discourse today. People have been trained to be mindlessly, reflexively skeptical, but I’m not sure Sean even knows what he means when he asks the actual dictionary for “evidence” to back up an uncontested claim about etymology.

The single most wholesome thing I have seen this year

The good news: Trump has announced that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will not be livestreamed. The bad news: “Should executions be livestreamed” is now part of the the public discourse for the foreseeable future.

I am such a sucker for anything from this era of Christian music anyway, but this album cover objectively slaps.

Seventeen-year-old me would be appalled at how much 39-year-old me likes the Greta Gerwig Magician's Nephew trailer.

"Dear Abby: How do I tactfully explain to the sweet, older ladies on the church event organizing committee that perhaps we should not use 'f/u' as a shorthand for 'follow up'?"

Historical southern gothic novel written by Jasmine Holmes and recommended by Amy Colleen? 👀👀

Also: I figured out a brilliant way to make my “for research purposes only” shelf look more respectable:

New-to-me Christian artist discovery at the record shop today!

As soon as I heard about the public execution thing I thought, “There’s going to be parents who make their children watch this.” Sure enough, the comments section on a piece in the local news had a bunch of people saying they were going to do just that. It’s demonic out there, folks.

A high school football team group chat in Boise had messages about SA-ing and killing a female classmate, saying "If you thought Cornell was bad, wait til you see us." It's insane that we expect teenage girls to try to learn under these circumstances. www.eastidahonews.com/2026/10/bois...

Remember that time when France did a reign of terror and everybody started behaving perfectly and definitely didn’t turn into bloodthirsty sociopaths?

Christian Nationalist provocateurs like Joel Webbon have been pushing public executions for a few years, specifically for “false” rape accusations. I can’t help but think that it’s a convenient time for Hegseth & co to demonstrate what happens to people who get on the wrong side of them.

I'm in Arkansas for a conference, and my Uber driver gave me a delightful tour of the route between the airport and the hotel, where he pointed out various landmarks pertaining to Walmart, the poultry industry, and fundamentalism. Five stars.

Hayley and I react to the recent apology from the Botkin sisters for writing the stay-at-home daughter manifesto, "So Much More," in 2006. Watch to see why, even though we understand the impulse, we think this is no time for cynicism. with @anastasiscenter.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k85...

The fundies have found my channel on fundamentalism.

I'm so exhausted with it repeatedly, relentlessly being CSA. Is it really so hard to just leave the kids alone?

Obviously we all love Dolly Parton as a singer, but I've always thought she has one of the most appealing speaking voices I've ever heard. I could listen to her talk for hours.

Should I be concerned that this is where my subscribe count is sitting after my episode on end times theology? 👀

I'm happy to report that I can now spell "Nietzsche" right the first time.

I’m on track to hit 10K views on my latest video, which is a significant leap for my little channel (Yay!). I showed my daughters, because YouTube impresses the youth, and their response was to devote the next ten minutes to listing all the people who are still more famous than me 😂

Today I randomly remembered that Jack Kevorkian used to live just a few miles down the road from us and we used to see his death-mobile driving around town. Anyway, just thought you all should know.

With all this talk of the AI apocalypse, and with billionaire technocrats making alliances with the Christian Right, there's never been a better time to brush on on your eschatology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W42D...

With all this talk of the AI apocalypse, and with billionaire technocrats making alliances with the Christian Right, there's never been a better time to brush on on your eschatology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W42D...

OK, I already liked Mamdani but THIS speaks to my heart. Supporting the performing arts and making an "elite" art form accessible to the public regardless of income level? Now you're speaking my language.

LIVE LAUGH LOVE is a NEW YORK TIMES Best Seller!!! Thank you to all my readers and defenders, and to my incredible team at Liveright. ❤️❤️❤️

Just say no to multigenerational compounds.