The Other Kind of Hypocrisy (a Guest Post for Leslie Vernick)
A young friend experienced extreme bullying at her Christian school. I hadn’t really understood modern-day bullying, until she explained it to me. (She told me it was like the infamous Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.) One of the most important things this young...Dear Sister I Read About on the CBCMoscow Blog Post
I don’t know you, but I’d like to reply to the letter you wrote asking for counsel, which was published on this blog post, with a troubling reply. Here is your letter: [perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=””...“Conscience” in the Bible: Insight Into Abusers and Their Targets
Scout’s honor, I didn’t start out to make this a blog post about Mark Driscoll. I was thinking about how those with hardened/polluted/jettisoned/seared consciences take advantage of those with sensitive/weak consciences, and I wanted to study conscience in the Bible...4 Ways Teaching Christians to Embrace “I’m the Worst Sinner I Know” Is Harming the Church
Some background of the teaching When CJ Mahaney began proclaiming “I’m the worst sinner I know” somewhere around the late 1990s, it certainly wasn’t the first time this teaching had been promoted. But from what I could find, this was when it began to go mainstream....Rethinking the Idol Factory: Challenging the “Idol” Construct as the Explanation for All Sin in the Lives of Christians
Why does it matter whether or not all sin is described as idolatry? It has surprised me, as I’ve researched it, how many Christians simply assume that all Christians churn out idols. To think that everyone who worships Jesus Christ is all the time actually worshiping...
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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