HeyJaredIn Solidarity by Christa Brown
Speaking truth with and for the powerless in the ChurchToo arena. Reflections & rants on religion, rot & abuse.
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Speaker Mike Johnson: What Did He Know About the SBC’s Clergy Sex Abuse Problem? (opens the original)
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United States Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has mastered the art of feigning ignorance about scandals and controversial issues.“I don’t know anything about it… I’ve never seen the Epstein evidence… It wasn’t in my lane… I’m not aware of that… I don’t know the details about that… I haven’t seen those reports.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V6v3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%
Blaming Satan (opens the original)
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In South Carolina, yet another prominent Southern Baptist church allowed a registered child sex offender to participate in ministry — for years.Jerry Sidell told detectives that he had molested nine boys through his work as a youth minister. He pled guilty to five charges of child molestation and one charge of enticing a minor to commit indecent acts, and he served time in prison.Despite
Defeating Trumpism While Building Community (opens the original)
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Every day, it’s some new awfulness from the Trump regime. Today, it’s his pandering to Putin and his lies about 9/11, but one thing we know for sure… tomorrow, it’ll be something else, unfathomable and shameful. And yet, here we are, thanks in large measure to a feckless, sycophantic, Republican-controlled Congress that refuses to rein him in.Are you upset about it all, but don’t know how to fight back?Check out the guest post below by the inimitable David Clohessy, longtime former director of t
Protestant Accountability: A New Resource for Tracking Abusive Clergy (opens the original)
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Clergy abuse survivors have launched a new site to try to protect kids and congregants from faith-based sexual predation. It’s a database at ProtestantAccountability.org, and it already contains the names of thousands of pastors and church staff who have been convicted or credibly accused of sexual abuse, or who have enabled abuse.The effort is headed by Chellee Taylor, who is a survivor of Southern B
Twenty Years Ago: The Beginning of Activist Efforts to Prod SBC Abuse Reform (opens the original)
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Think back twenty years to August 2006.George W. Bush was president, iPhones didn’t exist yet, and Twitter was just a month old.That was when I wrote a letter to then Southern Baptist Convention president Frank Page, describing how the Southern Baptist pastor who sexually abused me as a kid – repeatedly and severely – had been allowed to continue in ministry even though other church leaders knew at the time, even though his name was on a secret l
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