Rebekah Bills

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Rebekah Bills
Rebekah Bills served four years as a civilian intelligence officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency, earning 6 Individual Act Awards, DIA’s Science and Technology Mission Enabler Award, and the Director’s Personal Coin. Now—her best assignment to date—she cares for her two young sons, Gabriel and Emmanuel, and her exuberant Great Dane puppy, Beowulf.

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Why I Gave Up Latin, and How It Changed My Life 19
- Education, Featured, MomThink
- December 20, 2024
In the homeschool arena where I grew up, knowledge of Latin was considered the hallmark of a well-educated child. As a mother who now is immersed in homeschool and private school social circles, I hear Latin’s praises sung on a regular basis, especially, and understandably, in those families and groups with classical approaches to learning.
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What Kind of Health Care Did American Women Really Want When They Deserted Kamala?2
- Culture, Featured, Health, MomThink, Politics
- November 26, 2024
Donald Trump’s stunning victory has everyone talking, especially about the surprising gains that he made with minority, youth, and women voters. As a woman, I was told that most of us would be voting for Harris because she was a champion of women’s health. It didn’t happen. In fact, Harris barely won the majority of the
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9 Thought-Provoking Quotes on Communism and Religion From an Ex-Soviet Spy 5
- Culture, Featured, Religion
- November 19, 2024
An often-overlooked Cold War journalist, political thinker, and ex-Soviet spy, Whittaker Chambers was born in 1901 and grew up in a poor and troubled home. Desperation and dissatisfaction with his upbringing and sympathy toward the plight of the poor and working class made Marxist ideology and its practical application—communism—especially appealing to Chambers. Like many young
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We Should Heed What This Ex-Soviet Spy Says About Beauty … And Terror 8
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- October 23, 2024
In the end, the only memorable stories, like the only memorable experiences, are religious and moral. They give men the heart to suffer the ordeal of a life that perpetually rends them between its beauty and its terror. These two sentences, written by Whittaker Chambers, quite literally stopped me in my tracks when I first
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