Stop Baptist Predators

Today's comic strip Pearls Before Swine is timely. It does a good job of encapsulating my thoughts about Paige Patterson's door-to-...

When someone sent me this photo of former Southern Baptist president Paige Patterson, he sent it with a caption that said, “Paige sings for ...

Ricky Mill, a Southern Baptist pastor in Raleigh, North Carolina, went to court last Monday to urge leniency for David Chatham, who pled gui...

“Where does the Baptist buck stop?” That was the title of a 2002 column by longtime religion writer Terry Mattingly. He was one of the fir...

When there’s an oil spill, people try to figure out how many barrels of oil went down. They want to know the extent of the damage. But when ...

According to a new study, “ one in 33 women who attend worship services regularly has been the target of sexual advances by a religious lea...

Some of you will remember William Thornton, a minister who is a discussion moderator on the BaptistLife site. At the end of 2006, some of y...

I couldn’t help but ponder the juxtaposition of Baptist events in Arkansas at the end of August. In Rogers, Arkansas, there was “ BBQ for lu...

Last week in Arkansas, the longtime music minister at a prominent Southern Baptist church pled guilty to 4 counts of sexual indecency with c...

Last Thursday, the longtime music minister of First Baptist Church of Benton, Arkansas, was convicted of sexual indecency with children. One...

Yesterday in Arkansas, the longtime music minister of Benton’s First Baptist Church was convicted on four counts of sexual indecency with c...

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians.” -- Gandhi Remember Ben ? As an adolescent boy, Ben was sexually abused by pastor George...