Ministry Sexual Abuse

“The Executive Committee had earlier secured Guidepost Solutions for an independent review of its handling of sexual abuse issues; thus, an outside outfit will be doing an ‘independent review’ of how the EC handled aspects of some sexual abuse cases and another outside group composed of Southern Baptists will have oversight of that, the latter group to be advised by a couple more experts in the relevant areas.” -

“This post is meant to give you a starting point for you to address the issue of sexual abuse and make your church a safe place and one that walks along survivors. Here are a few steps you can take right now:” - SBC Voices

“While the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) recently commissioned its own independent inquiry through Guidepost Solutions, messengers voted at its annual meeting to transfer oversight of that investigation or launch an additional one.” - C.Today

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Some recent articles and posts…

“Ronnie Parrott … and Grant Gaines … have said they will make a motion at the upcoming meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention asking the denomination’s newly elected president to hire an outside firm to investigate.” - C.Leaders

RNS: The letter. Also at RNS: Leaked Russell Moore letter blasts SBC conservatives, sheds light on his resignation.

“here are some guidelines that you should never, ever bend. Most of these are related to the safety of the children and volunteers.” - C.Leaders

“Have we tamed the tongue too much? Christians work to recover a biblical understanding of harmful hearsay vs. healthy criticism.” - C. Today

“There is no evidence that Bryan Loritts discouraged anyone from reporting sexual abuse when he was pastor at a Memphis church, according to an independent review launched by his current employer, The Summit Church.” - BPNews

On Prov. 15:12 “It would do us well, as institutions and individuals, to consider what areas of our lives and our systems that we’re not willing to run towards the microscope. If we’ll listen to our anger it can help us. Often it is those truth-tellers which stir us up to anger that will give us the key to understanding our blind spots.” - SBC Voices