Stop Baptist Predators

Do you want to know which priests have had “credible allegations” involving sexual abuse of a kid? In Tucson, you can just go to the diocese...

“ Crocodile tears ” are fake. They’re a hypocritical display of emotion. The expression comes from an ancient story about how crocodiles wee...

Madeleine Manning, whose fully-alive words of truth I posted a couple days ago, sends out to clergy abuse survivors this favorite quote from...

Madeleine Manning is a survivor of childhood clergy sex abuse. She couldn’t attend the recent SNAP conference, but she sent some powerful wo...

Pastor Ben Cole told the Texas Observer he “learned a lot about being a Southern Baptist from The Sopranos .” It’s “the whole Godfather thi...

“Zero-tolerance is measured by what is done, not what is said.” Amen to that! Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre, professor at Iliff School of Theolo...

A 17-year old boy received oral sex from a 15-year old, and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Today, the Georgia Supreme Court is hear...

It’s a story we’ve seen over and over: A Baptist pastor is accused of sexually abusing a kid...people know about it...no one does a good jo...

The Chihuahuan Desert is a thorny, sun-bleached, jagged terrain. But when it gets rain, the desert blooms with colors few ever see. Last wee...

Recent Episcopal news has me still pondering Marv Knox’s editorial . He said the Baptist General Convention of Texas has been “appropriately...

In a recent editorial, Marv Knox suggested we “hold churches accountable for abuse” by publishing the names of those who allow an abusing m...

On my 16th birthday, I stopped by the parsonage after a day of watching the Ganzer kids. The youth and education minister had invited a bun...