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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

would strongly suggest that "getting out of your bubble" means meeting new people from different walks of life who can expose you to the breadth and depth of human experience in all its many forms, and does not mean "listening to a podcast."

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

huh I wonder if Jesus very famously said anything else about this verse. well anyways

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is your reminder that the Southern Baptist Convention, of which Cities Church is a member, formed in 1845 solely because northern baptists did not want to fund missionaries who enslaved people, while southern baptists were perfectly fine with slave-owning pastors!

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

the horrors keep on persisting but at least you can make brownies from scratch

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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I grew up with these textbooks; it really was a preview of everything that would happen in the past year into our current struggles with the US government waging war on its citizens. Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals have been pushing for an authoritarian government for decades.

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A 2017 Huffington Post investigation found that 2,400 private schools receiving taxpayer funds used curriculum created by Abeka, Bob Jones University, or Accelerated Christian Education - all of which are products of Christian fundamentalist institutions.

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Abeka, the Curriculum of Christian Fundamentalism

One of the conservative homeschooling world's favorite curriculums is the brainchild of two Independent Baptists.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that. Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

You don’t have to dig very deeply to find that one of the most popular curriculums for homeschoolers and private schools is the product of Christian fundamentalism.

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Abeka, the Curriculum of Christian Fundamentalism

One of the conservative homeschooling world's favorite curriculums is the brainchild of two Independent Baptists.

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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"Abeka, which bills itself as teaching biblical values and prioritizing excellence in education, is taught widely in private schools and homeschooling groups throughout the United States." ~ @elenactrueba.bsky.social

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Abeka, the Curriculum of Christian Fundamentalism

One of the conservative homeschooling world's favorite curriculums is the brainchild of two Independent Baptists.

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The Gilded Age is back today, which is an excellent time to note that it is the perfect television show because it features the most realistic storyline of all time: a man being down so astronomically bad for Carrie Coon

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Writing this gave me a vulnerability hangover but it is one of the only things I have been able to think about in the wake of the greatest life change I've ever experienced

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Biblical Patriarchy Lied To Me About Motherhood

I grew up under the influence of Christian fundamentalism and all I got was this dumb fear of having kids.

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

me: hm I don’t feel very good also me: my nutritious breakfast was half a cup of coffee and a See’s bordeaux egg this is Easter week folks

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The Revealer @therevealer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The massively popular Charismatic Christian leader, Todd Bentley, faced public scandal multiple times. But that didn't end his career. @elenactrueba.bsky.social explores what his redemption reveals about conservative Christian culture in the United States today. therevealer.org/the-resurrec...

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The Resurrection of Todd Bentley — The Revealer

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thrilled to have a piece out in @therevealer.bsky.social on the first real disillusionment with the faith in which I was raised: at 14, I attended the “Florida Outpouring,” a revival led by the controversial evangelist Todd Bentley that quickly descended into scandal: therevealer.org/the-resurrec...

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The Resurrection of Todd Bentley — The Revealer

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The Revealer @therevealer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Our February issue is here! With great articles on adoption as a religious industry, Hindu divorce, student protests, ecstatic dance, a scandalous Charismatic Christian televangelist, & more from @mpgphd.bsky.social, @profirmf.bsky.social, @elenactrueba.bsky.social, & others! therevealer.org

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

How does the author of Project 2025's chapter on the Department of Education want to raise birth rates in America? By reducing the subsidization of student loans—because if women aren't pursuing higher education, they're more likely to have children: thefederalist.com/2024/12/02/h...

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Here’s How To Actually Reverse The Baby Bust

The best way to promote fertility isn’t subsidizing parenthood. It’s stopping the programs that discourage people from having babies.

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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Great article on homeschooling!

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

christmas baking in FULL swing over here

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

On Substack today, I'm writing about the men who launched the Christian homeschooling movement: their theology, their ideology, and their novels (yes, really): open.substack.com/pub/elenacec...

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The Founding Fathers of Homeschooling

Rushdoony's theology, Moore's science, and Farris'... novels?

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

writing hack: realize your laptop is on 10% battery and you absolutely must finish the Substack post you’re working on before it dies (leaving the confines of bed to go downstairs and fish around for the laptop charger is not an option)

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

every year I wait for Spotify wrapped to give me the exact same piece of information

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Trad wives are everywhere, it seems. We love to hate-watch their TikToks and write think pieces about women who perform traditional gender roles online. But trad wives have a predecessor and an ideology less ancient than they'd like you to think: Stay-At-Home-Daughters & biblical patriarchy. A 🧵

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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Regardless of what happens on the national stage, it is critical to continue to expose teachings trapping women and children in harmful situations and enabling abusive and controlling behaviors to go unchecked. open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

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Rape Culture and Purity Culture

Dismantle the Myths

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Elena Trueba @elenactrueba.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

time for an actual introduction, now that I've left the bird app! I'm Elena, I'm based in California, I was raised in the very insular world of conservative Christian homeschooling, I have a Master's in Theological Studies from Harvard, & now I write about all things evangelicalism + politics.

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