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!

Follow-up to “It’s All About Women; No, Really!”

ByRachel August 11, 2015 0 Comments
Hey guys, remember that time that the president of The Council For Biblical Manhood and Womanhood got frustrated with secular culture because secular culture didn't believe that complementarianism was all about husbands serving wives? Well on July 6, CBMW published another article explaining how the way to uphold a strong marriage culture is for wives to serve husbands. Remember my blog post...

Why you’ll never see me use #AllLivesMatter

ByRachel July 20, 2015 3 Comments
The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter sprang up this year as black deaths in the media brought to light the fact that racial oppression is still alive and well in our society—and in much of the subconscious programming that we get from the media and other people. Some complained that all the concern over racial justice was overblown, and worried that the media was inciting a firestorm rather than...

I watched JAWS as a five-year-old.

ByRachel July 18, 2015 1 Comment
I went to a 40th anniversary showing of JAWS on the big screen last night. How did that movie not scare me as a five-year-old? Seriously. How? How did that movie not bother me? How did it not send me into a lifetime of nightmares that would drive me slowly insane and end with my teen years spent taking a “break” in a sanitarium? Yes, I saw it when I was five. With my grandparents, if you can...

Go Set A Watchman: Our baffling need to accept sequels just because greedy people want money.

ByRachel July 15, 2015 0 Comments
The literary community went into mourning this week when Harper Lee’s novel Go Set A Watchman showed a darker side of our favorite fictional lawyer, Atticus Finch. Set 20 years after Lee’s original masterpiece, To Kill A Mockingbird, the book portrays elderly Atticus as someone who holds quiet but devastatingly patronizing attitudes about the role and capabilities of black citizens in Maycomb...

Driscoll, Duggars, and Scandal: Why Do We Keep Missing The Warning Signs?

ByRachel June 2, 2015 5 Comments
In the past 18 months, the church has seen two very well-known Christian figures fall from grace in the media. First Mark Driscoll did a Citizen Kane sort of nosedive off his Mars Hill tower, and now the Duggars are in the middle of a child sex scandal. It’s been a strange year. As I reflected on that last night, it occurred to me what these two situations have in common. In both cases, the...