Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Baptists should heed mother's call for accountability

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Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( SNAP ) at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, on January 26, 2012. ...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Clergy sex abuse and the "silence of the many"

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"True evil lies not in the depraved act of the one, but in the silence of the many." On this day, I am contemplating these word...
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...