The SBC Sexual Offender Database That Isn’t: My Inside Peek
The Southern Baptist Convention meets this week in Dallas, after a tumultuous spring with a whole lot of bad publicity having to do with domestic and sexual abuse. Once again they’re looking at a resolution to develop a sexual offender database that will keep a...The Most Important Time to Stop Going to Your Church: A Response to the Gospel Coalition
You can listen to me read this article here: It was a few weeks ago now that TGC posted the article “The Most Important Time to Go to Church.” The most important time to go to church, according to the TGC author, is when you don’t want to, because “covenant...Making Sense of the Church World’s Epidemic of Abuse
I’m all about making sense of things. If a movie has a gaping plot hole, then no other redeeming qualities can redeem that movie for me. If a song can be interpreted a dozen different ways, then I don’t really want to listen to that song. Needing to make sense...Commentary on JD Greear’s Facebook Live Statement
On Thursday, May 24th, JD Greear posted a Facebook Live about the needs of the Southern Baptist Convention. This is it. Greear is running for President of the Southern Baptist Convention. I’m following Greear’s admonition that we seek to think the best of our...A Letter to the Washington Post Revealing Abuse at an SBC Seminary
Megan Cox of Give Her Wings has given me permission to repost her letter to Sarah Pulliam Bailey, the author of the Washington Post series on Paige Patterson. The abuse and abuse enabling in SBC circles is far worse than what I talked about yesterday. Dear Ms....
I’m Rebecca Davis, a trauma-informed writer, book coach, speaker, compassionate witness, prayer minister, and lover of Jesus who lives in Greenville, South Carolina.
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