Stop Baptist Predators

Southern Baptist ministers and leaders instilled in me a hateful lesson. The core teaching of their lesson was this: “You are a creature voi...

Clergy abuse survivors in other major faith groups have three possible ways for exposing their perpetrators and warning others: (1) criminal...

At SNAP’s last press event at the Baptist General Convention of Texas, I was told the BGCT’s media person talked about how, for Baptists, th...

“Relinquish any expectations of others….” Those were the wise words of “Cakes” in talking with an abuse survivor. The survivor was having a ...

Kacy is a 14-year-old athlete. She’s a girl. Her sport is football. Those facts may make her a bit unusual. But they don’t make her unChrist...

The Associated Baptist Press recently posed the question of whether there should be a religious “test” for public office. Suzii Paynter, di...

A California cathedral dedicated a first-of-its-kind garden to honor victims of clergy sex abuse. The garden has a broken, circular stone ...

I get this line all the time from Baptist preachers. They tell me what “God wants” me to do. Or what God has “called” me for. As if they kno...

Several people have asked me “What happened to Bob Allen?” I understand their curiosity and concern. Bob Allen is the fearless journalist wh...

Haven’t we all grown weary of hearing Southern Baptist officials tell us what they CAN’T do? Haven’t we grown sick of all their tired talk a...

An Episcopal bishop in Pennsylvania has been ousted and rebuked for covering up his brother’s sexual assaults on a teen girl in the 1970s. ...

Baptist minister Timothy Mann was sentenced to 7 years for child sex abuse. Mann was a popular music minister who worked at prominent churc...