Crime

“[A]s C.S. Lewis argues in this essay, the humanitarian theory of punishment deprives a person of the ‘rights of a human being.’ And when deterrence is the sole goal of the system then even the punishment of the innocent is warranted since it can have a deterrent effect.” - Acton

“For secularists to claim “no one is an animal” is actually highly inconsistent. They want to believe evolutionary ideas (e.g., man is just an animal) while still believing humans are somehow unique” AiG

Keith Mumphery was twice cleared of an alleged sexual assault. Then he was tried a third time, without even knowing it. And then his life collapsed.

Fatal plunge into Lake Minnetonka tests a father and a marriage

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The pastor of a fundamentalist Baptist church with two members already facing sex abuse charges was arrested Tuesday on charges that he failed to make a required child abuse report. Robert A. Ross, the pastor of Open Door Baptist Church in Mesquite, is in the Mesquite jail. Bond has been set at $2,500. Ross learned about that church member Steven Winn was sexually assaulting a 15-year-old on Feb.

A pardon expert emailed me his life’s work. Then he killed his two sons and himself.

“I’m praying that our churches, our church specifically, and other Bible-believing churches in our area, that we will point people to Jesus. …He’s the only one who can bring peace where there is nothing but lostness and struggle and anger and fury and confusion.” CToday

Davey Blackburn, the Indianapolis preacher whose pregnant wife, Amanda, was fatally shot in a home invasion two years ago, was remarried Sunday

Update from this earlier post

A lawsuit filed recently in Oklahoma claims negligence by a Southern Baptist state convention in the violent rape last summer of a 13-year girl attending a church camp.

Statement from Grace Baptist Church in Knoxville