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Is it Sinful for Fundamentalist Baptists to Sue Their Church?
Evangelist Allen Domelle Thanks to ever-increasing media scrutiny and the willingness of sexually and psychologically abused people to tell their stories, Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB)...
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The David Farren Case: Why I Post Reports of Clergy Sexual Misconduct on...
Recently, I received several emails and social media comments from Evangelicals complaining about my posting of public news reports detailing clergy sexual abuse and misconduct. One Evangelical...
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Does the Bible Advocate Beating Children?
Dennis being spanked by his Dad with a hairbrush The Bible speaks, you decide. And please, no revisionists; a rod is actually a shepherd’s crook used to gently guide the sheep (children) along. The...
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Why Do So Many Evangelicals Abuse Their Children?
Now there’s a title sure to get everyone’s attention! Why do so many Christians abuse their children? The reason is primarily a theological one (though they might not even realize it is). Most...
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Dear Pastor, Do You Believe in Hell?
Oh, preachers preach about it. Life is short, hell is real, or so they say. But, I am not sure they really believe what they are saying. Baptists are noted for being hellfire and brimstone preachers....
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Is a 34 Year Old Murder Case Connected to New Bethany Home for Girls?
A composite drawing from LSU FACES Laboratory shows what investigators believe a woman found dead on Jan. 28, 1981, may have looked like before she was stabbed to death four to six weeks before her...
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IFB Preacher Mack Ford is Dead
Abuser and molester Mack Ford is dead. Notorious child abuser and molester, Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) preacher Mack Ford is dead. Ford, for many years, operated New Bethany Home for...
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Has the Spanking Ban in Sweden Led to a 500% Increase in Child Abuse?
Michael Pearl In today’s mail came the March-April 2015 edition of Michael and Debi Pearl’s No Greater Joy Magazine. This issue featured an article written by Michael Pearl titled Attack on...
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Churches That Abuse: Why Good People Do Bad Things and Why Bad People Do Bad...
Is Your Pastor an Elmer Gantry? Are You Sure? How Can You Know? Churches attract all kinds of people with varying motivations for being a part of a particular religion. I spent fifty years in the...
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Churches That Abuse: Why Good People Do Bad Things and Why Bad People Do Bad...
Is Your Pastor an Elmer Gantry? Are You Sure? How Can You Know? In the first part of this post I dealt with Churches That Abuse: Why Bad people do Bad things. I wrote: Churches attract all kinds of...
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Churches That Abuse: Why Good People Do Bad Things and Why Bad People Do Bad...
Is Your Pastor an Elmer Gantry? Are You Sure? How Can You Know? In my last post on this subject I wrote: In this post I want to deal with Churches that Abuse: Why Good People Do Bad Things. This post...
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Evangelicals Use ‘We Are All Sinners’ Argument to Justify Sexual Abuse
One would think decent, thoughtful people would agree that a fifteen-year-old teen boy touching the genitals of five little girls is criminal. One would think decent, thoughtful people would agree...
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Pastor William ‘Pete” McCullers Arrested in Dothan, Alabama
Pastor William ‘Pete’ McCullers with his wife Linda William ‘Pete’ McCullers, associate pastor of Tabernacle of Praise Church, Chipley, Florida, was arrested today in Dothan, Alabama. McCullers is...
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What Should We Do When Religious Freedom Leads to Child Abuse?
Gerald Harris, pastor Crossroads Baptist Church, Sellersburg, Indiana The fracas in Kentucky over Kim Davis’s refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has brought to the forefront the...
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The Dogma that Followed Me Home
Guest post by Cat Givens. When I was growing up in northeast Ohio, my family attended a Baptist Church. It was one of those places where you’d meet every Sunday morning and then again Sunday evening....
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Michael Pearl Continues to Advocate Beating Children
Michael Pearl Michael Pearl, author of To Train Up a Child, continues to advocate the ritualistic beating of children in the name of God. In the November-December 2015 of No Greater Joy Magazine,...
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How Should Churches Handle Allegations of Abuse?
How should churches handle allegations of abuse? Let me state right up front that I do not think churches shouldn’t “handle” anything. This is what gets churches, pastors, and church leaders into...
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The Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) Indoctrinates Children to Obey...
What follows is a video put out by The Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ), a “Christian religion whose primary purpose is to worship the Almighty God based on His teachings as taught by the Lord...
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Book Review: Breaking their Will by Janet Heimlich
Janet Heimlich’s book Breaking Their Will, Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, is a cogent investigation into religious child abuse. Breaking Their Will covers a broad array of religious...
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It’s Summertime: Beware of Evangelical Attempts to Evangelize Your Children
It is summertime, a time when school children spend their waking hours in leisure pursuits. I have many fond memories of the warm days of summer, three months of freedom from the rigors of the...
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