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Friday, September 28, 2007

Baptist guidelines leave kids "by the wayside"

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Last week, SBC spokesman Roger “Sing” Oldham told the Tennessean that the Southern Baptist Convention is going to “develop recommendations ...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Religious rape and cult-like thinking

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Warren Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was convicted of rape-by-proxy for forcing a 14-year ...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Kudos to Baptist abuse survivor Debbie Vasquez!

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In a Bible drill, Debbie Vasquez would definitely beat me. She’s a woman who loves the word of God and loves her faith. She’s also a Souther...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Test of Faith

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A young man testified that, when he was 15, Southern Baptist pastor Steven Haney convinced him to have sex as a “test of faith.” I winced. ...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Disappointment with religious leaders

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Since the meeting last Monday in Nashville , the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. have been running through my head. Maybe thoughts of MLK w...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

Autonomy as tool for evil

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"The only thing needed for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." When “congregational autonomy” is used as an excuse...
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Friday, September 14, 2007

Retraumatizing horror of Baptist leaders' complicity

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In Ruth’s new Survivor Story , she tells about how she got lost going home from church, even though she lived just a few blocks and even tho...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Running both ways at once

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I’ll be making another trip to Nashville next week. So, I am weighted with the thought of again standing in that room with men who mostly se...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The man who unlocked the cathedral

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My friend and long-time mentor, Dan O’Donnell, died on September 11, 2005. I’ve changed his name to preserve his children’s privacy, but it’...
Sunday, September 9, 2007

Episcopal example of action

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The Austin American-Statesman reported yesterday on how the Episcopal diocese of Texas handled a report of clergy sex abuse involving a pri...
Friday, September 7, 2007

Myth of the money-grubber victim

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Until recently, most priest abuse lawsuits in Missouri got resolved for between $15,000 and $40,000 , reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ...
Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Write to the Committee

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“The Southern Baptist Convention does not have the power to prevent what you have described.” Those words were in a recent email from the SB...
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Former appellate attorney, prior PhD student in religion, mom, wife, breast cancer survivor, struggling French-speaker, jazz-lover, runner, and survivor of Baptist clergy sex abuse. Coffee?
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