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Shining light on Baptist clergy sex abuse

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Hush money and cockroaches

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How many more? That’s the question people should always ask whenever they hear about a church buying a clergy abuse victim’s silence with hu...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Haggard scandal isn't about gay sex

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The headline was an eye-grabber: “Pastor Ted Haggard faces more gay sex accusations.” But the more I delved into the January 24th Associated...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Don't ask don't tell, Baptist-style

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Last Wednesday, former Southern Baptist minister Marshal Seymour pled guilty to molesting three boys. Police said they were aware of eight ...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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The Southern Baptist Convention was founded in 1845 by white Baptists who supported slavery. For 150 years, it remained a faith group that ...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Baptist pattern

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As an adolescent girl, Rebecca Maxfield was sexually abused by the youth pastor at her Baptist church in Connecticut. Several years later, s...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Alabama CBF: the good and the bad

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The pastor of a Baptist church was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. People in the community were shocked and baffle...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

The great ghetto of Baptist-land

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Imagine a country with 16 million people -- a country the size of Chile or the Netherlands. Marauders roam among the population, raping the ...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Obedience and Authority

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Most ordinary people will obey the instruction of an authority figure, even when the instruction requires action that is morally repugnant. ...
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Friday, January 2, 2009

Blaze of straw pretends to be the moon

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When I saw this 13th century poem, it reminded me of what so many clergy abuse survivors have encountered among Baptist leaders: Words of re...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Risk: Another lesson from the Matt Baker story

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“Matt has been losing jobs for many years. If Mr. Baker… had such a great relationship at the church where he was a pastor in Dallas, why di...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Baptists at their best?

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Matt Baker is a Baptist preacher who is accused of having killed his wife in order to pursue a relationship with a young woman in his church...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

Southern Babtoys Corporation

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Imagine a company called Southern Babtoys Corporation. They market a game-toy that has a pervasive problem. At least 3 out of every 100 will...
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