by Rebecca Davis | Jan 13, 2020 | challenging the status quo, news and musings, seeking Jesus
About 15 years ago I joined a certain group because everyone else was doing it and it seemed like the thing to do in order to be a better Christian, which of course I wanted very much. The group followed a format that I found out later was typical, but it was all new...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 21, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, news and musings
You can listen to me read this article here: It may feel like voyeurism, reading about it, if you don’t know any of these people. But as I’ve been saying for some time now, I can be pretty doggone certain that you do know or at least interact with a survivor of sex...
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 14, 2019 | challenging the status quo, news and musings, our New Covenant identity, sanctification by faith alone, untwisting Scriptures
It’s supposed to be encouraging when we hear that God the Father sees His children through the filter of His Son Jesus Christ. I’ve seen Christians almost come to tears when they talk about how God the Father is wearing “blood-colored glasses” to look at us, seeing...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 5, 2019 | birthday reflections, news and musings
The question I’ve spoken in a number of Christian school chapels over the years. As a professional storyteller I’d speak in chapel with a true story from one of my missionary books, and then as the “visiting author” I’d go around to the classrooms and answer...
by Rebecca Davis | Mar 26, 2019 | challenging the status quo, news and musings, our New Covenant identity
Years ago when we were visiting a large and well-endowed fundamentalist church here in Greenville, South Carolina, the Sunday school teacher went on a bit of a tirade about how wrong it was to come to church to “get.” “You’re only supposed to come to church to...
by Rebecca Davis | Dec 31, 2018 | news and musings
As far as this blog is concerned, 2018 came in with a bang, with David and Louise Turpin: the picture perfect homeschooling family, the post that broke my blog when it garnered over 55,000 views in a day (almost 100,000 to date). Ironic thing was, of the many...