by Rebecca Davis | Nov 3, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Recently a friend wrote to me about a church in which the well-meaning elders choose to believe anyone who claims to be repentant, even those who have been living a double life (such as a well-respected church person who turns out to be a secret abuser or adulterer)....
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 22, 2017 | challenging the status quo, seeking Jesus
While others are spending October celebrating the Five Solas, I want to celebrate umbrellas. Actually, I want to celebrate getting out from under umbrellas. And for good measure, so the non-initiate can understand my Umbrella Parable, here’s the expanded version of...
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 6, 2017 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity, seeking Jesus, untwisting Scriptures
Yesterday’s post presented the question from a reader and the first part of my answer, about wicked parents and how we as the body of Christ need to be teaching children to obey God rather than man. You can read Part One here. But what about controlling parents...
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 5, 2017 | challenging the status quo, untwisting Scriptures
Here’s a letter I received last week: I have a long back story but to simplify for my question, I am in my early 50s, so raised my kids in the era of the home school conference you mentioned [in the post “Christian patriarchy: Here’s how you replaced God”]. ...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 30, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, survivor stories, untwisting Scriptures
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...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 29, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
As Providence would have it, when “Jane’s” account of rape in the environment of The Master’s University went viral last week (link), I was barely aware, because I was cleaning bathrooms and listening to lectures on abuse. One of them was “Helping Women with Child...