“Cherry-Picking” Powlison Recent writings in the modern biblical counseling movement have been using David Powlison’s teachings in a “gate-keeping” way. “David Powlison taught _____; so anyone who sways from _____ is not really a true biblical counselor.” These...
The rocking horse pictured in the featured image has been in Shirley’s family for almost 70 years! Shirley enjoyed it as a child. Our children enjoyed it. Our granddaughters enjoyed it. We really didn’t want to sell it, but we added it to the moving sale items. It did...
Pondering… I’m pondering a fresh perspective on segments of the modern biblical counseling movement’s worldview. I’m wondering if a common biblical counseling understanding of people (their “theological anthropology”) may, perhaps, be “a bit off the mark.” What Do...
As biblical counselors, we have something of a checkered history with research. For more about what I mean by that, you can read my blog post Biblical Counseling and Scientific Research. As biblical counselors, we will sometimes say, “I quote from research. Here’s an...
A new book by Abigail Shrier is all the rage: Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. As the title and subtitle suggest, Shrier opines that bad therapy, especially in the form of “gentle parenting,” is ruining the current generation of children in America. I have...
