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Your Thoughts on Biblical Counseling vs. Licensed Counseling

Yesterday I caused quite a stir by talking about some of the problems with how the biblical counseling movement started, and some of the problems with some places it's currently being taught. I want to stress that we don't need to think of biblical counseling vs....

Biblical Counseling and Horrid Perspectives on Abuse: How Did Things Go So Wrong?

Biblical Counseling Can Be Dangerous. Julie Roys has been doing an expose of how John MacArthur handled counseling Eileen Gray, whose husband was physically and emotionally abusing her children (and later found to be also sexually abusing them). When she went to the...

If Your Church Makes You Feel Guilty and Miserable…Leave

Sometimes church is a toxic place.  Not always. Not even usually!  Study after study has found that religiosity actually helps people, and people who go to church tend to have better mental health, better relationships, and better lives overall. HOWEVER--and that's a...

On Vipers in Diapers, Emotional Enmeshment, and Toxic Churches

Dads shouldn't need their adult daughters to give them adulation and affection. That's called emotional enmeshment and triangulation, and yet that's what Voddie Baucham, who has been nominated for President of the Southern Baptist Convention (he may not actually run)...
A Letter to the Woman with a Controlling Husband

A Letter to the Woman with a Controlling Husband

Are you married to a controlling husband?    I first ran this post back in 2016, but as we're moving over to our new domain next week, and taking only the posts from 2018 and forward, I wanted to make sure this one came with us! I refer to it a lot. If you're in...

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