When abuse happens in evangelical environments, it’s never without plenty of enablers in the vicinity. But not all of these enablers are mere “flying monkeys,” willingly or fearfully doing the will of the abuser.

When we come to any ancient text, including the Bible, we're coming as tourists in someone else's culture. So it behooves us to be good guests and learn a little bit about our hosts before we go gallivanting off.

The word discipleship  gets thrown around a lot. And by its generally accepted definition in evangelical circles, this word is supposed to convey the idea that you're being a 'disciple' of Jesus, specifically. There's supposed to be a notion of 'imitation' here. As a matter of fact, John Mark Comer has recently introduced the language of 'apprenticeship' into this conversation, a distinction I've found clarifying. But what happens when discipleship is actually conditioning —