Southern Baptists plan to hire Guidepost Solutions to run abuser tracking database
United StatesRNS For years, Southern Baptist leaders told members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination that setting up a database to track abusive pastors was impossible. Now that impossible task is one step closer to being a reality. Charleston pastor Marshall Blalock, chair of a Southern Baptist task force on managing the abusive pastors tracker […]
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 say denomination faces US Department of Justice investigation
Nashville, Tennessee, US AP Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday that several of the denomination’s major entities are under investigation by the US Department of Justice in the wake of its multiple problems related to clergy sex abuse. The SBC’s Executive Committee has received a subpoena, but no individuals have been subpoenaed at this […]
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 […]