You know you’re doing something right when a clergyperson who has abused someone under their pastoral care blocks you for calling them out. That is the case with Julie Roys, a former youth pastor and publisher of The Roys Report, who by her own statement abused “Sarah,” a young woman
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Julie Roys doubles down on dumb, defends her past abuse of lesbian church member, even as she displays questionable journalistic ethics
TLD: Anti-abuse blogger Julie Roys is defending her past abuse of a lesbian church member, denying the abuse, and engaging in ethically questionable journalistic practices. We object. Julie Roys is, to many, the 800-pound gorilla of abuse journalism. Her approach, she says, is one of investigative journalism, and her publication, The
Continue readingMore on abusive priest David Nix and the suicide of Alana Chen
Yesterday, I received an email from Catholic priest David Nix, who allegedly is responsible for the death by suicide of Alana Chen. In Nix’s email (screen cap below), he demanded that I remove a reference to him on the site’s listing of abusive church leaders. That’s not going to happen,
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