That Time I Talked to an SBC Executive Committee Member
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...How to Come Out of a Cult and Find Jesus
I met Emily Elizabeth Anderson in January of this year, when she told me she had appreciated my Untwisting Scriptures books and asked to interview me on her blog, Thriving Forward. (You can find that interview here.) I knew she had come out of the Bill Gothard...Does He Look Like He Loves You? (Guest Post by “Mara”)
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...Small to Great (Guest Post by Rochelle Sadie)
I’m delighted to post this week from my friend Rochelle Sadie’s blog My Dear Sister. In spite of her blog’s name, please know that this post is not only for women but for men as well, anyone who has been harmed by a spiritually abusive system and made to feel “small.”...Did I Do All I Could for My Siblings? (Guest Post by Erika Smith)
Erika Smith grew up in an abusive home in which the parents claimed Christianity. She is still a follower of Jesus in spite of the way she and her siblings were treated by her parents and the casual “forgive and forget” dismissal she has received from churches where...
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.
See my work as a trauma-informed book coach and ghostwriter at rebeccadaviswordworking.com