In the US, chaos erupts over SBC legal filing in Louisville abuse lawsuit
United StatesRNS Abuse survivors, along with some members of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee and the SBC’s abuse reform taskforce, have denounced a Kentucky court filing by Southern Baptist entities aimed at limiting their liability for sexual abuse claims. A brief filed earlier this year by lawyers for the Executive Committee, Southern Baptist Theological […]
Southern Baptists: Dispute over abuse hotline reveals how far the SBC still has to go
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that while a group of Southern Baptist leaders is working to implement a set of reforms to respond better to sexual abuse, many survivors still distrust them…
Southern Baptists: After years of delay, a change of direction on sexual abuse
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports from Anaheim in California where more than 10,000 Southern Baptists gathered this week to address sexual abuse…
In the US, Southern Baptists agree to keep list of accused sex abusers
Anaheim, CaliforniaAP The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to create a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse and launch a new taskforce to oversee further reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. The vote came three weeks after the release of a blockbuster report by an outside consultant […]
Probe of Southern Baptist sex abuse response moves forward
Nashville, Tennessee, USAP Rev Marshall Blalock feels the weight of his new responsibility. The South Carolina pastor serves as vice chair of a recently formed Southern Baptist Convention taskforce charged with overseeing an investigation into how a top denominational committee handled sex abuse allegations, a review that comes years into the SBC’s public reckoning with […]
ESSAY: WHO AMONG US? WHAT THE KAVANAUGH HEARINGS CAN TEACH US ABOUT FORGIVENESS
In an article first published on Religion News Service, KATELYN BEATY, former managing editor of ‘Christianity Today’ and the author of ‘A Woman’s Place’, reflects on events in the US surrounding the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court…