by Rebecca Davis | Dec 31, 2018 | news and musings
As far as this blog is concerned, 2018 came in with a bang, with David and Louise Turpin: the picture perfect homeschooling family, the post that broke my blog when it garnered over 55,000 views in a day (almost 100,000 to date). Ironic thing was, of the many...
by Rebecca Davis | Dec 26, 2018 | For the Protectors, untwisting Scriptures
This is the first post reflecting my ongoing study of fear in the New Testament. ***** When I think of Mary’s husband Joseph being afraid, I think of this passage in Matthew 1:20-21: Joseph had this in mind [the problem of Mary’s pregnancy and his decision to...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 27, 2018 | challenging the status quo, For the Protectors
A friend described to me how her church did marriage counseling: the married couple had been told to come up with a list of “evidences of grace” that they saw in each other’s lives. We were to say them out loud in front of each other and the elders meeting with us....
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 22, 2018 | news and musings
Six years ago when I first began to learn about extreme abuse, when I was first introduced to dissociative identity disorder as something more than a movie plot, when I began to dip my toe into a world of darkness beyond what I had previously ever comprehended, I...
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...