by Rebecca Davis | Jun 14, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
This post was inspired by Valerie Jacobson. ***** Samaritan: What happened to you? Wounded One: I was attacked by a sadistic robber. Samaritan: Really? Which way did he go? I have to find him. Wounded: Could you help me first before you bring him to justice?...
by Rebecca Davis | May 27, 2019 | challenging the status quo, untwisting Scriptures
It’s common for preachers and Christian writers to tell us, “When you listen to this sin being described, don’t think about anybody else; just think about yourself and search your own soul.” Many Christians, well-meaning and good-hearted, very much take that...
by Rebecca Davis | Apr 2, 2019 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Before I began to work regularly on untwisting Scriptures at this blog, Here’s the Joy, I was regularly doing that over at BJUGrace. That was the blog some friends and I set up to discuss the GRACE report on Bob Jones University and serve as a platform for abuse...
by Rebecca Davis | Jan 28, 2019 | challenging the status quo, our New Covenant identity
It was some months ago now that I added to my list of things to write about a lecture from Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Convention’s Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. Here is the link to the one-minute video and below is the transcript:...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 19, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
Conservative evangelical bloggers are discussing what I believe is a first: a megachurch pastor is suing not only bloggers who are publishing criticisms of him and his work, but the wives of those bloggers, as well as a news reporter who is working on a story about...