My Dad In the 1960s: Integrity vs “Virtue Signaling”
A few days ago, my husband, Tim, introduced me to a term I had missed somehow: “virtue signaling,” that is, letting others know via social media that you are more virtuous in your beliefs than they are regarding a certain social problem, without actually doing...The “Slippery Slope” of Victimization
Growing up Independent Baptist, I got to hear a lot about slippery slopes. Mainly I heard about them regarding music. “If you young people start listening to that Christian rock, before you know it you’ll start dancing around a devil fire.” Or something like that. In...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
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 commitments” are made for the hard times, not the good...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...
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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