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Reviews of the books Diagnosis for Disaster by Claudette Wassil-Grimm, Haunted Memories: Healing the Pain of Childhood Abuse by Perry Draper, Lost Daughters by Reinder Van Til, The Myth of Repressed Memory by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham, Repressed Memories: Can You Trust Them? by Arlys Norcross McDonald, Unchained Memories by Lenore Terr, Victims of Memory: Sexual Abuse Accusations and Shattered Lives by Mark Pendergrast, Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon, The Christian Life by Sinclair Ferguson and The Master&#8217;s Way of Personal Evangelism by Robert Coleman.

David Powlison served as CCEF’s executive director (2014-2019), a faculty member, and senior editor of the Journal of Biblical Counseling. He held a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary. David wrote extensively on biblical counseling and on the relationship between faith and psychology. His books Seeing with New Eyes and Speaking Truth in Love probe the implications of Scripture for how to understand people and how to counsel. The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context explores the background and development of CCEF’s mission. David is survived by his wife Nan, their three children and spouses, and seven grandchildren.

David Powlison

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Ed is a faculty member and counselor at CCEF, where he has served since 1981. He holds a doctor of philosophy in counseling (neuropsychology) from the University of Utah and a master of divinity from Biblical Theological Seminary. Ed is a licensed psychologist and has been active in local church ministry for decades. He has written numerous books, including When People Are Big and God Is Small (P&amp;R Publishing, 1997), Shame Interrupted (New Growth Press, 2012), Side by Side (Crossway, 2015), and Created to Draw Near (Crossway, 2020).

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