Stop Baptist Predators

I’m still pondering some of the things Morris Chapman said when he was trying to avoid a budget-cut for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ex...

In Benton, Arkansas, the former music minister of First Baptist Church is up for parole less than two years into a ten-year term on sexual i...

In Georgia, a Southern Baptist “youth counselor” and Sunday School teacher has been charged with multiple counts of felony child molestation...

From a Birmingham jail cell, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter to the “moderate” religious leaders of his day. He told of how “gravely d...

At the end of 2010, I was looking back at some of the year’s big Baptist stories, and I paused over Morris Chapman’s remarks about the South...

Bill Zeller’s suicide note provides painful and tragic testimony to the long-lasting, soul-searing destruction of sexual abuse. He was a “br...

That’s Sue and Tommy Gilmore in the photo. This is an update to yesterday’s post . Take a good look at that woman: Sue Gilmore. As a young c...

This man, Tommy Gilmore , is in your church. His full name is Thomas Edward Gilmore. His wife’s name is Darla Sue Dunagan Gilmore. From time...

Survivors: Shine on in 2011!

In 2010, the writings of four columnists gave a good overview of the Baptist clergy sex abuse story. The columnists are Norman Jameson (form...

1. Southern Baptist pastor Matt Baker was convicted of murder . Despite multiple prior reports of sexual abuse and sexual assault, Matt Bake...

Humor is not my strong suit. I’ll be the first to admit it. So, whenever everyone else thinks something is funny, and I don’t, I tend to dou...