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Abusive Christian Leaders and Our Role in The Cover-Up
Let’s be crystal clear: It isn’t the revelation of abusive leadership that is the problem, it’s the fact of the abuse. The headlines aren’t the problem for the church—the abuse and the cover up are the problems. This time, it’s a report that the Southern Baptist Convention failed to address myriad sexual abuse allegations against …[ read more ]
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We’re Going to Need a Bigger Millstone (Sexual Abuse and the Church)
It’s not hard or bold or courageous to condemn sexual abuse in the church. Once pedophilia, pornography, rape or unwanted sexual advances by men and women purporting to be Christians make the headlines, condemning their actions is necessary, but it costs nothing. It’s a stone tossed onto a pile of rubble burying the perpetrators, but …[ read more ]