Thursday, June 30, 2016

SBC church seeks to 'out' child sex abuse victims

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David Clohessy speaking to the press, along with other SNAP members, outside Westside Family Church in Lenexa, Kansas (Kansas City Sta...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Southern Baptists elect known clergy-sex-abuse-cover-upper as president

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Steve Gaines, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis (photo by Joni B. Hannigan) At its June 14-15 annual meeting in St. Lou...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

SNAP prediction: Next "Spotlight"-style exposé will focus on Baptists

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David Clohessy Executive Director, SNAP On June 3, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests released a letter to top offici...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

What's wrong with the "sexual predation" resolution

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In anticipation of the Southern Baptist Convention’s June 14-16 annual meeting in St. Louis, Pastor Bart Barber of Farmersville, Texas, has...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Why Ted Cruz should see "Spotlight"

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Paige Patterson (AP photo) In the same week that the movie “Spotlight” won Oscars, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz created ...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Spotlight: Lessons to be Learned

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The movie “Spotlight” has received six Oscar nominations, including best picture, and on February 28 when the Oscars are presented, clerg...
Monday, November 16, 2015

"Frankly, this ruling is appropriate ...."

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A couple weeks ago, the Georgia Baptist Convention held “its first-ever sexual abuse summit ” at First Baptist Church in Atlanta. So far s...
Monday, October 5, 2015

Mitigating the trauma of clergy sex abuse

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"A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives." --  Desmond Tut...
Monday, January 19, 2015

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." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hello ...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

SNAP at the 2014 SBC annual meeting

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SNAP was at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting June 11 in Baltimore, handing out flyers and urging Baptists to get ser...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

$12.5 million verdict shows change is coming to Baptistland

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Last Saturday in Florida, a unanimous jury awarded $12.5 million to a man who, as a child, was sexually abused by a Southern Baptist mini...