Saturday, December 15, 2012

Deadly Secrets: New book shows terrible cost of Baptists' keep-it-quiet culture

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Author Kathryn Casey tells the true crime story of Southern Baptist pastor Matt Baker, who was able to migrate through many Baptist church...
Saturday, December 8, 2012

Multi-accused pastor preaches on forgiveness

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First Baptist Church of Stover, Missouri (photo by Tim Townsend) Excerpts below are from the 12/8/2012 St. Louis Post Dispatch article...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Three allegations in three years, but church kept quiet

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In Oklahoma, police arrested Southern Baptist youth pastor Dustin Ray Werneburg on multiple charges of child sex crimes. Werneburg, who was...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Multi-accused pastor remains in pulpit; Baptist officials claim they're powerless

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Travis Ray Smith (ABC 17 News) Missouri Southern Baptists stand by their man despite multiple child sex charges  . . .  again. South...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

"Those days" are still here in Baptistland

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“In those days, this was a no-no in terms of publicizing it,” said Rev. James Griffith , former executive director of the Georgia Baptist ...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Blasting child rape victims is cruel tactic

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  What do Jerry Sandusky and Frank Page have in common?  Jerry Sandusky Sandusky, the former Penn State coac...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

Studies show religious sex offenders do more harm

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Thanks to BaptistPlanet , these two eye-opening studies were recently brought to my attention. 1.  In Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research...
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...