Stop Baptist Predators

Dr. Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, tells the Commercial Appeal , "We are committed to protecting our childre...

For those of you who know how averse I can be to Bible verses - they were so often used as weapons against me - this will seem out of charac...

Off to Nashville again to try to get the attention of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee. I haven’t seen any indicat...

Why do Baptist leaders fail to take action to protect kids against clergy sex abuse? These are the excuses and rationalizations I've hea...

In Tennessee, Southern Baptist pastor Vern Daugherty trashed a 14-year-old victim while speaking on behalf of a minister who pled guilty to...

In response to one of my comments on the bbcopenforum blog, junk99mail suggested an SBC "Office of Ministerial Accountability and Integ...

The report from Bellevue shows that what pastor Steve Gaines called “moral failure” was really minister Paul Williams’ “egregious, perverse...

Lots of Baptist ministers email me. Mostly, their messages are chiding. They tell me that I need to be “nicer,” that I have too much of a “h...

Last week, a prominent Texas Baptist chastised me, saying “you seem to enjoy gunny-sacking every time a new episode emerges.” He said other ...

In the most recent issue of Christian Ethics Today , editor Joe Trull writes about "overlooked issues" in connection with "cl...

Reports show hush-it-up and cover-it-up pattern among Baptist churches. Bellevue is just the most visible tip of the Baptist clergy abuse i...

Just came in from the best run I've had in ages. That doesn't say a whole lot since I'm really more plodder than runner, but I k...