Around ten years ago now, I stumbled in through the back door to my Untwisting Scriptures work. That back door was named “Bob Jones University.” Social media and the news are abuzz about BJU again, since the president has announced his departure because he and the...
(Or at least bigger than *I* thought, but that’s not as good a title.) I’m working on Untwisting Scriptures #5, “Suffering, Death (to Self), and Life.” In preparation for that, I’m studying all the uses in the New Testament of the Greek words that indicate some...
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...
Eight years ago, in the fall of 2014, I had the opportunity to correspond with a member of the SBC Executive Committee about the SBC sexual abuse offender database that didn’t exist yet. His name was Roger Oldham, and he showed up in the 288-page investigative...
This week the 288-page report about abuse in the Southern Baptist Church (SBC) came out. To some, it was utterly shocking. To others it was, “It’s about time.” I guess it depends on which side of the road you were standing on. What you had seen,...
Last week I reposted (on my Rebecca Davis—Untwisting Scriptures Facebook page) my four-year old “Idol Factory” post, and again I received several heartfelt responses, both publicly and privately. A reminder that this pernicious teaching is still actively tormenting...
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