long-accepted theories are being challenged. For instance, there is a rising interest in the need for distinctively cross-cultural training in counseling;13 and although the subject is open to abuse, it clearly has some strong merits. The second development, and in my judgment a fundamentally dangerous one, is the appeal in some recent literature to establish what is supracultural in the Scriptures or in one’s personal religion, and communicate that. Everything depends on what is meant by ‘supracultural’.