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SBC Executive Committee releases previously secret list of convicted and credibly accused church sexual abusers

At 8:50 p.m. on Thursday, May 26, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee released a 205-page document containing the names of more than 700 convicted and credibly accused clergy sexual abusers. This action is the most sweeping of several rapid…

Calvinist Baptist pastor says Guidepost recommendations in sexual abuse report are ‘harmful’ and threaten ‘the sufficiency of Scripture’

In a blog post for the conservative Calvinistic network G3 Ministries, former Southern Baptist pastor Josh Buice of Atlanta criticized the recommendation of Guidepost Solutions’ independent investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s mishandling of sexual abuse to create…

Title 42 is expelling the good people, not the bad people, border advocate explains

Claims that Title 42 protects Americans from foreign criminals ignore the realities of migrant life at the U.S.-Mexico border, an immigration advocate and attorney recently told a Baptist Sunday school class in Texas. The fact is that the drug cartels…

What happens when the good news of therapy and the good news of Scripture conflict?

One of the Scriptures I memorized growing up was Philippians 4:8: “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy…

Sick of war, church leaders in South Sudan recommit to finding peace

In the 11-year history of South Sudan as an independent country, the East African nation has known more conflict than peace among its disparate tribes. The conflicts, which began in 2013 as a political dispute between the country’s leading politicians…

White supremacy and firearm idolatry: America’s Baal

“And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? If the LORD (be) God, follow him: but if Baal, (then) follow him. And the people answered him not a word.” — 1 Kings…

The European option: Why we need a third way on abortion

Since learning of Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, I have emersed myself in the resulting tidal wave of news reports, opinion pieces, blogs and podcasts. The New York Times podcast The Daily has been one of…

After the Guidepost report: Dwelling with evil while living into hope

Like many Southern Baptists, former or current, I have read much of the abominable report released by Guidepost Solutions. It documents the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s response to numerous sexual abuse allegations and includes an audit of the Credentials…

SBC establishes hotline to receive reports of sexual abuse in churches

The Southern Baptist Convention has established a confidential hotline for survivors of sexual abuse in churches to make reports, an unprecedented step for the nation’s largest non-Catholic denomination. After decades of denying the problem exists and even shaming those who…

SBC presidential candidate says Executive Committee’s waiver of attorney-client privilege was ‘not wise’

Three days after a bombshell report from independent investigators made possible by the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee waiving attorney-client privilege, one of three candidates for SBC president said he still believes waiving privilege was “not wise.” Florida pastor Tom…

Rights, responsibilities and the two-fold commandment of love: A reflection on gun violence in America

“I did not want to weep for Martin; tears seemed futile. But I may also have been afraid, and could not have been the only one, that if I began to weep, I would not be able to stop.” James…

Mass murder and the soundtrack of our lives

Some days my outlook is determined by my outfit. If that sounds shallow to you, you’ve never worn a pair of cut-off leopard print shorts. If you have, you know the possible trajectory of where one’s day can go from…

Rise of American authoritarianism demands a choice, Perryman says

Shaving Dad goodbye

The Enhanced Games were another MAGA grift

It’s bad interpretation, not the Bible, limiting female pastors