What We Believe

Sacred order, not therapeutic order. Banner is Christian counseling built for the whole distance — rescue, stability, and real strength.

I have wrestled with these pages. Who is this for? How straightforwardly and plainly can I name what I see and what I believe God asks of me, of Banner Institute, and of His Church? How responsible is it to share my thoughts on these things and further to presume to try to do something…

We throw the word “narcissist” around. It’s the go-to label for the toxic ex, the tyrannical boss, the politicians we dislike. But the true meaning is much deeper. The DSM gives us a clean clinical box: grandiosity, lack of empathy, entitlement, etc.. We treat that box as the whole story. But the box is too…

In The Triumph of the Therapeutic, Philip Rieff warned that modern psychology had not merely replaced theology but inverted it. “Religious man was born to be saved,” he wrote. “Psychological man is born to be pleased.” The shift was not trivial. It marked a civilizational pivot from a culture ordered by sacred authority to one…