Stop Baptist Predators

There are times when so much religiously-fueled vitriol comes my way that I can hardly bear it. When those waves of hate arrive, music is of...

Yesterday, a man who identified himself on Blogger as “Nathan Palmer” tried to post a comment to my December column about a former Arnoldsvi...

From Childersburg, Alabama comes this lovely missive today: “You are going straight to Hell. No doubt about it. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOU...

Mike Hogan Mike Hogan, a mayoral candidate in Jacksonville, Florida, testified as a character witness for a Southern Baptist pastor who w...

Trish lived down the hall from me when I was 19 years old and in the dorm at the University of North Texas. She was a dear friend, but thoug...

With former Southern Baptist minister David Pierce now up for parole, and with the parole board hearing closed to the press, I thought it wa...

From the get-go, there was a lot that seemed not-quite-right about the case of Southern Baptist minister David Pierce at the prominent First...

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...