The following is reprinted with permission from Christa Brown’s excellent publication In Solidarity. The original is here. The U.S. Department of Justice has now shut down its investigation into sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention. So say attorneys for the SBC Executive Committee who assert that the DOJ notified them today
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Churches sit silent as pedophiles circle the Trump cabinet
Anglican Watch has long strived to avoid politics despite our facially obvious progressive bent. We also welcome and respect all political views, recognizing that the Kingdom of God is not reserved for any one group, and if it were, we’d probably be the last to know. That said, we believe
Continue readingDiocese of Virginia hosts performance by anti-equality Oak Ridge Boys
Shrine Mont, the Orkney Springs resort owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, is again hosting the Shenandoah Valley Festival. This year’s line-up includes country group The Oak Ridge Boys, which in the past has opposed marriage equality. Joe Bonsall, the Oak Ridge Boys’ late tenor who toured with the group
Continue readingThe SBC apocalypse should be an air raid siren for episcopalians
Earlier today, the long-awaited report on sexual misconduct within the SBC was released, and it’s a bombshell. Persons of every ilk use words like “rage,” “fury,” “incandescent,” and “apocalypse” to describe their reaction to the report’s damning findings. Even so, one has a sense that people lack proper adjectives to
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