Truth warrior, Jesus follower, wife, boymom, and lifelong learner. Apologetics practitioner for Orthodox Christianity, the Southern tradition, homeschooling, and freedom. Virginian by birth, Carolinian by choice, recovering feminist-socialist-atheist, graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and retired mainstream journalist turned domesticated belle and rabble-rousing rhetorician.

In my day-to-day life, I’m “Rebecca” to most folks, “Mom” to my sons, “Sweetie” to my husband, “Becky” to my parents, “Beck-Nut” to my nieces and nephews, and my patron saint name “Ilia” to my fellow Orthodox. But here, I’m a dissident mama who’s adept at triggering leftists, Yankees, globohomers, and neocons, so I’m going to bang as loudly as I can.