by Rebecca Davis | May 25, 2022 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
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,...
by Rebecca Davis | Jun 22, 2021 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
(aka, “Don’t Gossip about Offenses”) The “Someone Offends Me” Chart Some time ago, the Victory Today Facebook page posted someone’s Bible study notes without context. As of this writing, 2.5 years later, it has been reposted (Shared) 88 THOUSAND times. The original...
by Rebecca Davis | May 9, 2021 | For the Protectors, seeking Jesus
This message to Anna Duggar is also included here as an audio message. Dear Anna, Happy Mother’s Day. Your children are beautiful. I don’t “know” you as well as some people do, since I’ve never seen your family’s show. (Except for one time in 2013 in a hospital...
by Rebecca Davis | Apr 19, 2021 | For the Protectors, news and musings, our New Covenant identity
A couple of years ago I wrote a series about “fear” (part one, part two, part three). But I knew there was much more for me to learn, and for me to share with others. Not to mention that I want my next Untwisting Scriptures book to be (tentatively) subtitled Shut Your...
by Rebecca Davis | Apr 8, 2021 | For the Protectors, seeking Jesus, survivor stories
Many Christians of my fundamentalist and evangelical background are wary of the concept of “religious experience,” at least partly because it has been abused in some circles. After all, “experience” without knowledge can open one to error and evil. But if we as Jesus...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 10, 2021 | For the Protectors
This article is Part Three of the series “Competent to Examine Jay Adams and His Teachings,” written with the help of Valerie Jacobsen. Part One, “How Jay Adams Would Counsel a Pedophile,” is here. Part Two, “How Pedophiles are Forgiven, from the...