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How long until Southern Baptists take action against clergy sex abuse?
The Southern Baptist Convention is convening its annual ballyhoo in Houston this week, but it doesn’t look as though they will make any progress on protecting kids against clergy sex abuse.Since 2006,...
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"The Southern Baptist Convention has passed a resolution urging people to report child sex crimes to law enforcement. Big deal.This is a virtually worthless 'feel good' public relations move that...
View ArticleAnother year of Baptist do-nothingness on clergy sex abuse
On June 12 at their annual convention in Houston, Southern Baptists passed a resolution reminding church members to report child sex abuse to legal authorities.Here’s what it says: “RESOLVED, that we...
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While Southern Baptists preached, prosecutor filed charges
Travis Ray SmithWhile Southern Baptists were busy preaching and pontificating at their annual convention in Houston this week, a Missouri story provided a good example of the consequences that come...
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Amy Smith's statement for SNAP event at Southern Baptist Convention
“Truth alone will endure. All the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.” -- Gandhi Today, I send a heartfelt thank-you to Amy Smith, Miguel Prats and Pam Palmer, who stood together outside...
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Irish Baptist pastor's abuse of girls covered up for 30 years
From the Belfast Telegraph:Paul Gardiner“A former Baptist pastor and gospel singer has been jailed three decades after his abuse against three young girls was covered up by the Church.“Paul Gardiner...
View ArticleGay grandmother shunned by church
In the New York Times’“Civil Behavior” column yesterday, a woman asked this question:Dear Civil Behavior: I’m 53, a daughter, a sister, a mother, a grandmother and a friend. And I am gay. I was raised...
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Baptist World Alliance: Talk but no action
Baptists should take "urgent action to implement measures to protect children from abuse, support their physical and emotional welfare, and respond to allegations of abuse,"said the Baptist World...
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ACE Study shows correlation between childhood trauma and adult diseases
The ACE Study: "The Bomb in the BrainThe ACE Study is gaining increasing recognition in the medical community and is shifting our understanding of childhood trauma and its effect on the body.ACE – it...
View ArticlePrestonwood scandal makes news in Ireland
Quoted from Church & State: An Irish History Magazine (Third quarter 2013 at p. 35; A Letter on Texas Child Abuse): “Strong circumstantial evidence suggests that Jack Graham, Pastor of Prestonwood...
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Reckless disregard for kids
Quoted from a July 29, 2013, article by Kevin Koeninger in the Courthouse News Service in Clarksville, Tennessee:“After a youth minister was charged with sex offenses, a Baptist church promised to...
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Pastor told investigators "he was aware"
A reader recently sent me an article with these comments:“My childhood church had a young man who volunteered for years with AWANA and the youth group. I had also heard from adults that he was so...
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Evangelicals need to confront the reality of sexual abuse in their ranks
Boz TchividjianIn yesterday’s Louisville Courier-Journal, award-winning religion writer Peter Smith wrote about the need for evangelical churches to confront sexual abuse and cover-ups within their own...
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Statutes of limitation lifted in Illinois
The great State of Illinois has lifted the civil statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging child sex abuse!This is a huge step forward and will help to protect countless thousands of kids into the...
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Don't mess with Texas Baptists
I was cleaning out some boxes recently and ran across the January 1986 sesquicentennial edition of Texas Monthly magazine. In it was a fascinating article called “Bane of the Baptists” by Gary Cleve...
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SNAP goes to Little Rock
A self-help organization for people who were sexually abused by clergy will hold a confidential support meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Wednesday, September 11. The organization is SNAP, the...
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Evangelicals "worse" than Catholics on sexual abuse
Speaking to a room full of journalists yesterday in Austin, Texas, Liberty University law professor Boz Tchividjian said evangelicals are “worse” than Catholics when it comes to responding to clergy...
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Why Paige Patterson's anti-outsider stance is wrong
Paige Patterson (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president Paige Patterson preaches that churches should resolve their conflicts internally and should not take them...
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Kudos to Boulder law enforcement!
Robert Phillip "Bob" YoungThis week in Boulder, Colorado, police served summons on two pastors and two elders at an independent evangelical church after an “investigation revealed the officials failed...
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Baylor president writes letter of support for child molester
Kenneth StarrTucked away in a Washington Post article last month was the news that Baylor University’s president Ken Starr wrote a letter of support on behalf of a child molesting school teacher.Baylor...
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