by Rebecca Davis | Jul 15, 2019 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
It’s actually a beautiful verse. But sometimes it’s used as a cudgel. After I had heard two different people refer to this Bible verse as a verb (as a cudgel that had been used against them), I knew it was time to write about it. Here it is: Beautiful verse, right? A...
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 26, 2018 | challenging the status quo
In a recent interview (which you can watch here), Rachael Denhollander, who spoke in court against the sexual-abuser-disguised-as-a-doctor Larry Nassar, talked about the horrific ignoring, enabling, and victim-blaming that has been perpetrated in USA Gymnastics and at...
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 | Jan 4, 2017 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
In the beginning, I had a little blog called Here’s the Joy on which I just wanted to blog about the Christian life and the wonderful truths of the power of the Holy Spirit, Christ in us, the Hope of glory. I was happy with my eight readers, and life was...