by Rebecca Davis | Apr 16, 2023 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, news and musings, untwisting Scriptures
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...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 16, 2023 | For the Protectors, our New Covenant identity
In 1 Peter 5, Peter wrote to church leaders who loved God and loved the people they were called to serve. He appealed to them not as “lords” (like a king), but as “shepherds” (like Jesus). Then Peter encouraged all of them—all the believers he was writing to—by...
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 18, 2022 | For the Protectors
It is a negative label, and one of accusation. Always. I’ve been pondering this term for years, but recently a book coaching client of mine used the term in reference to himself, raising the subject anew for me. The one who makes the accusation of victim mentality is...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 26, 2022 | For the Protectors, news and musings
Many years ago, 35 years ago, to be exact, my first book was published. That is, my first book EVER. With Daring Faith: A Biography of Amy Carmichael. Here is the book’s first cover: And here is the cover it was given a few years later: And THIS, my friends, is...
by Rebecca Davis | Jun 6, 2022 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
MaryEllen Bream has been encouraging Christian mothers at her Imperfect Homemaker blog for several years. More recently, she has begun speaking up about domestic abuse on Facebook and at Hope for Hurting Wives. She has impressed me as a calm, steady voice in the world...
by Rebecca Davis | May 26, 2022 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, survivor stories
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...