Author: Rachel

Welcome to the web home of Rachel Heston Davis--young adult lit writer, newspaper stringer, and associate editor at Written World Communications. Please, make yourself at home. :) You can find loads of information here. For a peek into the secret life of an obsessive writer, read my blog. To see those writing projects on which I'm obsessing, visit the Writing page. If you're a fellow storyteller or story reader, I recommend Resources and Links to point you in the right direction. And as always, check my news feed for updates on projects and publishing!

Life Inside A Screen — Part 1

ByRachel November 9, 2015 1 Comment
Remember when life was in 3-D? We talked to people and had to watch body language. Reading happened on a page held between your fingers. Eyesight required this thing called depth perception, because most of what we looked at wasn’t projected from a flat surface. I remember that time. In fact, that was my childhood. But I’m alarmed, at 32, to realize how much of my adult life happens on a...

The Ghostly Mystery I Never Solved

ByRachel October 30, 2015 0 Comments
In 2013, I defended Halloween as a fun and harmless holiday. In 2014, I talked about some of my favorite scary movies and how they got surprisingly theological. But what will I do for 2015? All the arguments have been argued. All the movies have been movied. I’m certainly not going to do a Pinterest-y post about my favorite Halloween decorations just so y’all can post your “Nailed It”...

Response to “My Brush With Feminism”

ByRachel September 29, 2015 3 Comments
Every time I decide to move away from the feminist topic on the blog for awhile, something happens on the internet that makes me go back to it. The blog Femina Girls recently posted an article by Rebekah Merkle called “My Brush With Feminism.” You’d think it would be about her brush with feminism. It’s actually more of a treatise on what she believes feminism to be, how she thinks it’s...

Chores, Sex, Marital Health, and People Who Didn’t Finish Reading the Article.

ByRachel September 24, 2015 2 Comments
Christians for Biblical Equality, one of my favorite church organizations, took the month of September to tackle the topic of sex within egalitarian Christian marriages on their blog, The Scroll. This led to some wonderful articles. I'm thrilled to see a religious organization that values equality talk about sexuality and intimacy, since that topic comes up so frequently in complementarian camps....

Gender confusion, aisle seven. Gender confusion to aisle seven, please!

ByRachel August 12, 2015 8 Comments
Yet another chance to use the word kerfuffle! It’s always a good day when I get to use that word. This time, it’s a kerfuffle about Target’s recent decision to stop labeling a “boys’ section” and “girls’ section” in the toy aisles at its store. The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood released an article, written by their executive director Grant Castleberry, stating that...