Nouthetic counseling, now more commonly known as Biblical counseling, has taken root across the country since Adams created it in 1970. In 2002, the Southern Baptist Convention endorsed the principles of the method, which is now taught at the denomination’s most prominent seminaries.
It has garnered intense criticism over the decades for its renunciation of evidence-based counseling and what detractors say is an overly confrontational approach. The word “nouthetic’ derives from the Greek word “noutheteo,” which means to confront or admonish.
It’s the same method highlighted in the Bob Jones University GRACE Report, a 2014 evaluation of the conservative Christian school’s response to sexual abuse. The report found counselors at BJU in Greenville for years consistently focused on the supposed culpability and sin of survivors of sexual abuse, and de-emphasized the responsibility of perpetrators.
BJU is not safe.
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Okay, so I am not aware if this is old knowledge or not, however I was looking around in the Library of Congress' Hamilton papers and I came across Laurens' December 18th, 1779 letter to Hamilton, (in which he expresses that Congress wants to choose him over his nomination for Hamilton to eventually head to France). What's caught me by surprise is this:
Between "good citizen" and "I returned to Philladelphia..." there are roughly four lines of writing that are crossed out (the markings being downward loops through the middle of the writing). What has made me very curious about this however is the omission of a note that this writing was crossed out in the transcript of the letter within The PAH.
I suck at reading handwriting (yay visual impairment) but like... if anyone has any idea what this crossed out section might say, I'd love to hear about it.
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What if uh...what if Michelle and Olivia? W little Ray
And AU with post canon Olivia and Michelle w Ray:(
Going to preface this with how amazing it is people will send me asks on topics I've had vague drafts of for ages but for whatever reason never published them.
(Evidence of my drafts and queue being fucking messes)
But yes, I'm still really attached to the idea of young sister candidates who still have siblings alive old enough to remember them being able to reunite with said siblings upon the farm system being dismantled, and one of the things that's most appealing about the Emma and Ray & Goldy Pond Resistance kids dynamics for me is them regaining that type of older sibling relationship after they had been the oldest siblings of their family for months if not two years since Susan was shipped out (this is also applicable to Norman with Vincent, Cislo, and Barbara post-imperial capital battle).
It's also a bit funny how CloverWorks provides a bit of foundation for this AU, saving Michelle from death because they wanted to save time and resources by reusing her model for one of the sisters that shows up in S2 episode 10.
Arguably one of the best changes they opted for, though they do nothing interesting with it. There's so much melancholic and healing potential upon a reunion with the younger siblings who still remember her and Olivia after spending years in a cutthroat environment that fostered division and systemic exploitation.
With Ray specifically, there's the belief he failed them by letting them walk off to their fate without lifting a finger to stop it or even just provide them with a warning, anything to give them an advantage and show he loved and cared about them, but in his pragmatic planning, he prioritized Emma and Norman over them, and that old regret and shame resurfaces.
And they're left with that dawning, muted realization of "ah, that explains why he'd get so sad every time a sibling left."
(Chapter 181.1)
Knowing he suffered in silence for so long and having been unable to provide him with a true sense of safety like an older sibling should, a new layer of sorrow tinging the memories of attempting to comfort him, sometimes with him maybe briefly lashing out due to something they said being unintentionally hurtful (e.g., "I'm sure they're happy with their new parents" because no they're not they're not they're not they're dead) but always ending with him curling in on himself and wanting to be left alone. Even during the few times it seemed like they were successful (though looking back, Susan and the collective efforts of Emma and Norman probably held the higher success rate), that ache is still present.
Again, lot of healing potential in that initial reunion hug between them and subsequent late night talks of mutual support where tales of their respective horrors slip out and worries over the search for Emma ebb and flow. (You could also go the route of him opening up about the full extent of his relationship with Isabella, though I'm firmly of the "there is no way in hell he is ever bringing that up until his 20s at the earliest unless prompted by an outside force" camp).
I would extend this out to all the older Grace Field kids from Ray through probably Nat though, if only because the first light novel already highlights Ray has a special attachment to Susan that it feels like he's taking up a disproportionate amount of spotlight without inherently offering a more unique spin on such a relationship, and we see Michelle and Olivia interacting with Emma and Norman a bit too, which is also precious.
(TPN Light Novel 1: A Letter from Norman - “The Ghost Incidents at Grace Field House;” the younger siblings listen to Olivia recount her sighting of a ghost with rapt attention.)
(S1 Ending 1 & Ending 2; some younger children sitting around Olivia as she reads them a story.)
(Chapter 12 Bonus Comic; Michelle and Olivia being won over by Emma and Ray to push for being able to see a sick Norman.)
(Minerva Confidential Report Key Animations for S1 Ending 1 & Ending 2; Michelle having a lively conversation with Emma and Norman as they walk through the first floor hallway of Grace Field. There's an argument that this isn't Norman because we can't see a hint of his shark fin cowlick, but unless this is when they're all walking to to push to see a sick Norman, I default to it being Norman since Ray is in the full shot so there's a complete trio babies snapshot.)
(Chapter 181.1; Michelle and Olivia trying to help ease the distress Emma and Norman are going through at seeing Ray cry.)
(Chapter 181.1; Michelle and Olivia with Norman wishing one of their young brothers well on his shipment day.)
(Chapter 17 | Chapter 32; Don and Ray fondly remembering Michelle and Olivia among their siblings who were shipped out, respectively, and interestingly both deeply internalizing how close the two were with each other by each remembering them in a side hug, though this might have just been for Demizu's drawing convenience.)
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When listening to Episode #8 of the Surviving BJU: A Christian Cult podcast, I was struck by the account of the survivor of sexual assault after the GRACE Report.
Apparently Deneen Lawson has a habit of saying to female BJU students that, if they have no place to go after expulsion:
There's always a homeless shelter.
Do you want your daughter to experience that? If not, then don't send her to Bob Jones University!
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This is a minor thing and I get why they didn't do it, but I was super disappointed that they didn't keep Ares' little fires for eyes thing. Like they've stripped all the gods and monsters of any real gravitas, but for me especially, the scene of Ares removing his sunglasses and there's just fire where his eyes should be has stuck with me for 15 years if that tells you anything about how absolutely hardcore of a character design that is
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Identity V New Announcement (additional)
Identity V x IPSTARS Theme Cafe in China new Characters released
More character will be added as merchandises and menu in their cafe
Identity V x KFC (China only)
The one who will getting the collaboration is Naiad (Grace)
During the event, Perfumer (Vera Nair) will be reprinted too
Identity V x 非人哉 (Inhuman) collaboration
Identity V continuation of Main story
During the event of Ashes of memory, you will have free Reporter (Alice Deross) as detective in your room and Logic Path
Event preview
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