No “Digging Up the Past” Allowed: A Response to Nouthetic (“Biblical”) Counseling
Sometimes I talk with people who want healing and help from the Lord but are hesitant to “dig up the past” or who have counselors who don’t want them to “dig up the past.” For a while now, maybe over a year, I’ve been mulling over that pejorative expression. “Digging...Here’s an Abuse Survivor’s Plea about Nouthetic “Biblical” Counseling
Yesterday I published a synopsis of and response to “Helping Women with Child Sexual Abuse in Their Past,” by Zondra Scott, a teacher of nouthetic counselors (going by the name “Biblical counselors”) whose husband Stuart taught “Biblical...Dynamics that Keep Abuse in Place in a Church Setting, and How to Address Them
This is an updated version of a blog post I wrote for a domestic abuse shelter a while back. ***** A Christian church functions somewhere on a continuum from healthy to cult-like. A healthy church is one in which all members, including leaders, love and help each...Our Christian Deconstruction Journey (guest post by my husband, Tim Davis)
Deconstruction has certainly been a common term for a while, with its hashtags often heralding an exit from the Christian faith of the Scriptures. This article from The Gospel Coalition claims that there are 4 reasons for Deconstruction: — “Church Hurt,” a term...
I’m Rebecca Davis, a writer, book coach, speaker, wife, mother, grandmother, compassionate witness, prayer minister, advocate for the oppressed, and lover of Jesus who lives in Greenville, South Carolina.
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