Stop Baptist Predators

For faith groups that proactively try to address clergy sex abuse, prevention and compassion go hand in hand. After all, how will people fin...

Many Southern Baptist leaders, including president Frank Page, have indicated they don’t think a predator database would help prevent clergy...

Just before Thanksgiving, reporter Peter Smith of the Louisville Courier-Journal interviewed Southern Baptist president Frank Page and aske...

Some of you have asked me how I manage to keep my equilibrium when Southern Baptist leaders sling so much mud my way. I thought about that q...

We call ourselves “survivors.” It’s more than a word. It’s an ever-present reality for which I am grateful. I consider myself one of the luc...

A dorm matron was charged with sexually abusing 13 to 15 year-old girls at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls outside Johannesb...

Several times now, in conversations with leaders at the Baptist General Convention of Texas, I’ve listened to the same phrase: “Good steward...

Many think the law is all black and white. It’s not. There are huge areas of grey. If there weren’t so much grey, lawyers wouldn’t have so m...

Some of you have noticed my running notes. No, I’m not trying to turn any of you into runners, but I do hope you’ll do something good for yo...

The Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has adopted a new policy for reviewing reports of clergy sex abuse. It's a policy that is li...

Last week, an Episcopal bishop was suspended from ministry for failing to report the 1973 abuse of a 14-year old girl by a lay-minister. Th...

You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine round about you, and behind you wi...