Friday, March 22, 2013

Pastor's sexual abuse of kid is blamed on "prostate troubles"

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Jack Schaap delivering his "Polishing the Shaft" sermon at the church's 2010 Youth Conference. See video of the sermon . ...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Boots, biscuits and Prestonwood Baptist

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In Texas, we’ve got a saying: “You can put your boots in the oven, but that don’t make ‘em biscuits.” That’s what I keep wanting to t...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Megachurch calls cops on member who speaks out

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A Southern Baptist megachurch reportedly called the cops on a longtime church member who raised questions about news stories that church le...
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. ...