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How to Prevent the Next Evangelical Leadership Scandal

By Filings on Tue, 11/10/20
Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism
Ministry Leadership
Moral Failure

“Working in PR, I’ve stepped in to help ministries after a crisis hits. What they need is more accountability before it happens.” - C.Today

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Bert Perry

NewGood stuff

Tue, 11/10/20

Fairly obvious—don’t name the org after the founder or any one else, don’t stack the board with family members and people who depend on the leader for their jobs, insist on church membership and attendance by all leaders, etc.—but a needed reminder in light of what’s gone on.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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  • "...(W)e have to show up at such a conversation with the acknowledgement that we will claim a biblical authority that is absolute, universal, and timeless."
  • Al Mohler on Calvin University decision to retain faculty who disagree with doctrinal statement on LGBTQ relationships
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