by Rebecca Davis | Nov 28, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Note: I put the term “Biblical counseling” in quotation marks not because I believe it’s wrong to counsel with the Bible. (Just the opposite is true, in fact.) But rather, because a certain group of people (nouthetic/”admonishing”...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 20, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
When our daughter was a teenager, I remember her coming to Tim and me in tears over what some peers of hers were talking about. Turns out one of the peers had just informed another, when my daughter was part of the conversation, that a teenager they both knew was...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 30, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, survivor stories, untwisting Scriptures
Yesterday I published a synopsis of and response to “Helping Women with Child Sexual Abuse in Their Past,” by Zondra Scott, a teacher of nouthetic counselors (going by the name “Biblical counselors”) whose husband Stuart taught “Biblical...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 29, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
As Providence would have it, when “Jane’s” account of rape in the environment of The Master’s University went viral last week (link), I was barely aware, because I was cleaning bathrooms and listening to lectures on abuse. One of them was “Helping Women with Child...
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...