Stop Baptist Predators

Shining light on Baptist clergy sex abuse

Sunday, March 25, 2012

SBC keeps special no-accountability status under pre-Civil War law

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After convening a task force and debating the issue at length, Southern Baptist officials have taken the bold step of recommending that t...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Twenty years later and at least twenty more kids

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Daniel M. Acker Jr. Daniel Acker Jr. was a Southern Baptist youth minister at Westwood Baptist Church in Shelby County, Alabama, when he ...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Church boots children so preacher-predator can take pulpit

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Darrell Gilyard “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew...
Monday, January 16, 2012

MLK Day and the failure of moderate Baptists on clergy sex abuse

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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...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Dear Al

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Al Mohler An open letter to Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Dear Al: You got a lot of press for all you...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Penn State lesson for Baptists: Outsiders needed for oversight

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Last week, Penn State announced its hiring of former FBI director and federal judge Louis Freeh to investigate the gaps in how the universi...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Easy to say, harder to do

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After my prior column, and after several other commentators called him on the carpet, Jim Denison has admitted he “made a mistake.” Denis...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Penn State: Baptist theologian puts ignorance on display

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Jim Denison “It would have been best for the alleged abuse victims at Penn State  . . . to go directly to those who wronged them.” So s...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Penn State and Prestonwood: Consequences are necessary

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Penn State has now fired football coach Joe Paterno because of his failure to respond appropriately in the face of child sex abuse allegati...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Contract preachers and accountability avoidance

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When Southern Baptist pastor Sammy Nuckolls was arrested on charges of video voyeurism, the news reports initially described him as merely a...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

"Into submission"

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WARNING: This video depicts physical and emotional violence . The man in this video is a Texas judge who handles child abuse cases. Tex...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Benton predator up for parole; survivor speaks out

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 First Baptist Church of Benton, Arkansas, a house haunted by the "secret life" that minister David Pierce led for two decade...
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Former appellate attorney, prior PhD student in religion, mom, wife, breast cancer survivor, struggling French-speaker, jazz-lover, runner, and survivor of Baptist clergy sex abuse. Coffee?
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