Thursday, February 28, 2013

One Commission, Two Commission: What's the Difference?

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Last month, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention wrote a letter to President Obam...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Real men don't buy girls

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We have seen too many reports of Baptist pastors who apparently don’t understand this basic truth: "Real men don’t buy girls.” Just...
Friday, February 22, 2013

United Nations chides U.S. for laxity on clergy sex abuse

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In a report adopted this month in Geneva, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child chided the United States for “failing to...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Baptists terminate investigator of child sex abuse claims

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Only a few weeks before the release of a final investigative report on allegations involving a missionary's sexual abuse of kids, the As...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

People to remember in the Prestonwood/Morrison Heights scandal

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Amy Smith (Rick Guy/The Clarion Ledger) Over the course of two and a half years , Amy Smith made dozens of phone calls, and sent even m...
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...