It looks like there is a longstanding history of poor responses to abuse. Mafia is a process, not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan-cooperation to which its individual members pledge lifelong loyalty…. Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, this was the glue that held us together. –Joseph Bonanno The rece
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The Lion Nebula: NASA Inception (2002–2004): Carson and Keller began discussing the state of contemporary evangelicalism, worried that the public voice of the movement was often dominated by peripheral or divisive figures rather than the central tenets of the cross and…
“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. Gilbert K. Chesterton The Roys Report posted Dennis Hastert, former evangelical House speaker undone by a child sex abuse scandal, dies at 84. Those questions…
The Botkin Sisters Apologize:Screen grab from video.: “Apologies are not meant to change the past, but to ensure a better future” (No verified source.) Suddenly, this was the latest thing in the reformed community. Voddie Bauchman’s daughter took up…
The same goes for naming all the involved sins. The pastor seems to hold a special position because he gets to name all the sins of the people he focuses on. As I said before, when disagreements linger, it is…
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca Again, these are allegations from those who were in this church, but I believe them. “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of…
“The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe. And especially it wants to be left to itself: to keep…
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.” William Shakespeare This is a short post since I’m in Boston. You’ve probably read these two posts. Let me set the stage. It is being…
“There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread, but rather that they let out what devils intend to do.”― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions They…
“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.” G.K. Chesterton Media in Dallas is about to print an in-depth story on a victim and her abuser, a pastor. We first…
St. Andrew’s elders do accept the PCA court’s conclusion that “Pastor Parsons has, at times, been harsh in his manner.” But everyone is a sinner, the email said, and Parsons was not accused of heresy or anything criminal and was…