by Rebecca Davis | Dec 29, 2017 | For the Protectors, news and musings
When I say “Here’s the Joy,” I just mean me, Rebecca. lol. A year ago in the fall of 2016 when my first solo adult book, Untwisting Scriptures that were used to tie you up, gag you, and tangle your mind, was about to come out, I panicked just a little bit about my...
by Rebecca Davis | Dec 15, 2017 | news and musings
Back when Tim and I were dating, in the long-ago days when rock music had a electronic disco sound but I didn’t know that because I never even listened to Michael Jackson, we played a lot of table games together. “How quaint,” you say. Yeah, well. Tim was a pretty...
by Rebecca Davis | Oct 16, 2017 | For the Protectors, news and musings
On November 3-4 at Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, NC, Joy Forrest of Called to Peace (www.calledtopeace.org) will be holding a conference called “Developing a Church-Wide Response to Domestic Abuse.” Chris Moles (www.chrismoles.org), author of The Heart of...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 5, 2017 | birthday reflections, news and musings
Sixty years is one of those zero milestones, you know. So I’m remembering. I remember that as a young person I didn’t like my name. My sisters had names that meant “lady,” “little lamb,” and “princess.” My name? It meant “snare” or “restraint” or “binding.”...
by Rebecca Davis | Jun 14, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, news and musings
This coming Friday, the plan is, I’ll be doing another Facebook Live interview with Natalie Klejwa of Emotional Abuse Survivor (new name Flying Free). Because we’re going to be talking about “bitterness,” I was naturally led to think about the wicked. So here’s a...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 26, 2017 | news and musings
I well remember the 1990s when the sexual abuse scandals among Catholic priests were being broadcast all over the news. But whenever they aired, I turned them off. I didn’t want to know about them because they were horrible. And besides, my pea brain told me,...