Monday, June 18, 2012

How long until Southern Baptists implement safeguards against clergy sex abuse?

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The Southern Baptist Convention is convening its annual ballyhoo in New Orleans this week, but it doesn’t look as though they will make an...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Pastor accused of cover-up is featured speaker for Southern Baptist Convention

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Jack Graham As the "horror story"  of former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky unfolded at trial this past week, I thought about...
Friday, June 8, 2012

Baptist pastor had long rap sheet

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A “ pastor now facing child sex abuse charges in Texas spent nearly a decade in the Texas state prison system before he was hired to p...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Florida Baptist Convention found liable for pastor who molested boy

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Douglas Myers (Florida Dept. of Corrections) As reported by the Orlando Sentinel … Yesterday, a Florida jury “found the Florida...
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...