This is part 4 in an ongoing saga about secrets and lies, hypocrisy, and the use of faith to manipulate and abuse people. There is also a consistent theme of using legal tactics to keep things in the dark. …

In the fall of 2019, I had a legal encounter with Dave Ramsey’s company, Ramsey Solutions (legal name: The Lampo Group). As a lawyer myself, I became interested in certain themes I noticed in how they handle legal (and other) challenges. As background, for over twenty years, I was married…

Recently I summarized the lawsuits against or involving Dave Ramsey and his company Ramsey Solutions (legal name: The Lampo Group). If you haven’t read it, go back and read that now for context. My previous article made clear that I don’t claim to be a disinterested party; I have experienced…

A settlement, an answer, a few depositions, and a new case later. Edited at 11/5/21, 3:30pm: to report on decision ordering Dave Ramsey to submit to a deposition in the O’Connor case and denying his attorneys’ request that Ms. O’Connor be barred from the deposition. I’m now three articles deep…

“I’m just trying to get to the bottom of this.” In a pivotal scene from the movie, “The Blind Side,” an NCAA investigator was concerned that a Memphis couple, alumni and boosters to The University of Mississippi, also known as “Ole Miss,” were trying to influence a promising young football…

Marilyn Dewey is a truck driver from Washington who spent hour after hour listening to Dave Ramsey’s talk radio show on her long haul routes. Tasha Ryan is a surgical technologist in Idaho who spent her free time tending her vegetable garden, raising chickens, and listening to Dave Ramsey on…

Healing from an abusive relationship is a journey. But figuring out how you got there in the first place can bring closure and a healthier future. “I would never let someone treat me that way.” That is one of the most unhelpful, and in fact harmful, statements someone can say…

The years 2018–2019 would turn out to be the hardest years of my life. They were harder than year after year of infertility and miscarriages. They were harder than the years of caring for three toddlers. They were even harder than accepting my youngest child’s terminal diagnosis. All of those…

Sunshine versus silencing. Light versus dark. Open versus sealed. Free versus gagged. There is a tension between each of these concepts that I think is woven throughout the Bible. I recently had a conversation with Amy Fritz of the Untangled Faith podcast about the use of different types of silencing…