They should not be treating schizophrenia period. The gold standard front line treatment for schizophrenia is to find a medication that reduces or eliminates the aural and/or visual hallucinations. PS You have not lived until you’ve sat in the doctor’s office while your mom describes her (very mild) visions and then renarks that the voices sound like incomprehensible static. This is NOT something Christian counseling can treat.

It is Liberty so anything they do is from a conservative christian view point. However, I don’t see (after a cursory review at least) any red-flags this center is going to be treating schizophrenia by “exorcising the demons” or engaging in conversion therapy or any other sort of quack therapy.

On a different note, Dr. Throckmorton you deserve a gold star for your Twitter handle.

Off topic because my thoughts aren’t about Liberty, but on topic because Christians are the best joke tellers and always have been. It must be the Holy Spirit that helps with the delivery. /s

I remember back in the mid-1980s when I was in a Discipleship Training School at Youth With a Mission / YWAM in Vancouver BC, we had a specialist / fly-in speaker (joker?) from San Francisco, who was probably paid a pretty penny out of our tuition to travel to our DTS and teach us for a week, who introduced himself as: “Hi, I’m _________ and I come from San Francisco, the land of fruits and nuts.” You could tell by the way he waited for the laughter after his punchline that this was a common joke of his. The older DTS faculty and staff did an expected “hardy har har” while the younger DTS students (it’s always the youth that’s more aware) were quite uncomfortable and appalled, and from that moment forward the students tuned out anything further he had to say during his visit (money well spent?).

Oh, and Jesus wept.

ETA: In the almost 40 years since my time at YWAM, it’s not shocking to see that “church jokes” haven’t gotten any better.