by Rebecca Davis | Mar 5, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, our New Covenant identity, untwisting Scriptures
Occasionally I’ve talked with friends who have feared they haven’t really forgiven the person who harmed them. “I keep thinking about the harm,” she might say. “It keeps hurting. So that makes me think I haven’t really forgiven.” It’s not only a common feeling, but...
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 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...