by Rebecca Davis | Nov 30, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Note: The “Biblical counseling” being critiqued here is actually nouthetic/admonishing counseling. There are many people who counsel Biblically who do not counsel this way. This is the third and final installment in a series of articles of commentary on...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 29, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Yesterday I applied Caroline Newheiser’s lecture “Living with an Angry Husband” (link) to the wife of Devin Patrick Kelley, the man who shot and killed 26 people in a Texas church on November 5, 2017. It is a lecture that sounds a very uncertain call to the...
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 | 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 | Jan 30, 2023 | challenging the status quo, seeking Jesus, untwisting Scriptures
This is an updated version of a blog post I wrote for a domestic abuse shelter a while back. ***** A Christian church functions somewhere on a continuum from healthy to cult-like. A healthy church is one in which all members, including leaders, love and help each...