Stop Baptist Predators

I grew up believing Catholics were wrong. Very wrong. We’re talking hellfire and damnation kind of wrong. According to my childhood pastor, ...

In Oklahoma, Southern Baptist pastor Joshua Spires advanced in the ranks from youth pastor to senior pastor while sexually abusing a teen ch...

Without accountability, power corrupts. It’s a truth as old as time, but Southern Baptists have yet to learn it. We have seen this truth pla...

The Southern Baptist Convention claims that it has no power to provide any sort of oversight for clergy who carry the Southern Baptist name....

From time to time, I hear from Baptist pastors who seem to at least recognize that the status quo won’t do. They say they’re in favor of kee...

Question: What do Southern Baptist leaders do with a top official who publicly castigates clergy rape victims as “nothing more than opportu...

People often ask me why I do this. “Why bother?” they say. “Baptists will never change.” They might be right about that. Maybe Baptists will...

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to chat for nearly an hour with Rich Buhler on his “ Talk from the Heart ” radio program in Southern Califo...

On the October 3rd broadcast of “ Richard Land Live! ” the Southern Baptist Convention’s top-dog ethicist had a lot to say about how some Ho...

By now, I’ve been called “bitter” so often that I've long-ago lost count. “Bitter” seems to be Baptist leaders’ favorite word-of-choice ...

In today’s Arkansas Times , reporter David Koon ponders the question of why Southern Baptist music minister David Pierce was able to do what...

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