Bible teacher and author Beth Moore says she has decided to write no more forewords for books, following the arrests of Christian author Heather Thompson Day and her husband, Seth Day — while insisting she will not stop encouraging younger Christian leaders.

Moore wrote the foreword to the Days' book, I'll See You Tomorrow: Building Relational Resilience When You Want To Quit, and once invited Heather Day to speak at a Living Proof Live session. In a lengthy post on X dated October 4, Moore said she has been thinking about “the risks involved in believing that people are who they present to be when you lack the benefit of being close enough to discern something different.”

According to the independent Seventh-day Adventist publication Spectrum, the Days were arrested on September 24. Heather Thompson Day, a former communications professor whose books include It's Not Your Turn and What If I'm Wrong?, was charged with injury to a child by omission. Her husband Seth, a former youth pastor and assistant professor of psychology at Southwestern Adventist University, was charged with injury to a child. Both are third-degree felonies. The arrests followed a teacher's report of signs of abuse. The couple's daughter alleged to a police officer that Seth struck her with her cell phone, causing bruising and lacerations, and that Heather knew of the alleged physical abuse and did not intervene. On September 25, Seth Day was also charged with child sexual assault. Both have been released on bond. These are charges and allegations — not findings or convictions.

Moore made that point herself at the outset of her post: she noted the Days “have not been heard by a court of law and remain, in the eyes of the law, innocent until proven guilty,” adding, “only the Ancient of Days knows.”

She pointed to Ravi Zacharias as the cautionary example — “He made charades an art form,” she wrote — asking how the many people who endorsed him could have known he was not who he appeared to be. “No one is Jesus. That's for dang sure. He alone can be trusted completely.”

Where she has landed: she will write no more forewords, but she refuses to give in to cynicism or to stop believing in younger leaders. She invoked the apostle Paul, who once refused to take John Mark on the mission field yet later called for him as “helpful to me in my ministry,” and she reflected on Jesus' parable of the wheat and the weeds — warning that tearing out everyone who merely resembles a wrongly trusted person would pull up genuine wheat along with them. “I'd rather take the risk,” she concluded. “And if I prove a fool, well, I've been foolish before and will be foolish again.”

The fallout continues. Christianity Today has removed Heather Thompson Day's “Viral Jesus” podcast from its website; it “will remain unavailable on CT Media until there is clarity on the legal process,” CT's Chief Creative Officer Erik Petrik told Religion News Service. Southwestern Adventist University placed Seth Day on administrative leave and said the university is “fully cooperating with law enforcement.”