August 2018
church leadership cover-up
21 - 08/18 /12:36
Last week a Pennsylvania grand jury published a 900-page report detailing sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by 300 Roman Catholic priests over a 70 year time-period. The grand jury details the victims’ horrific stories. It also documents the carefully managed coverup by the highest levels of the US Catholic Church.
Forensic accounts of priests raping the sons and daughters of Christ remind me of Judas. Not even Dante’s Inferno imagined crimes as sacrilegiously perverse. In the majority of cases the victims were adolescent males, but boys and girls as young as 7yrs-of-age were sexually abused by men trusted as representatives of Christ.
~ Adapted from an article by Prof. Pecknold, Catholic University of America ~ Read More…
Forensic accounts of priests raping the sons and daughters of Christ remind me of Judas. Not even Dante’s Inferno imagined crimes as sacrilegiously perverse. In the majority of cases the victims were adolescent males, but boys and girls as young as 7yrs-of-age were sexually abused by men trusted as representatives of Christ.
~ Adapted from an article by Prof. Pecknold, Catholic University of America ~ Read More…
#metoo hits the church
14 - 08/18 /10:48
This month, the entire leadership of Willow Creek Community Church resigned. It was sudden. It was unexpected. It was necessary.
40 years ago a twenty-something youth pastor and a bunch of creative Christ-followers launched the seeker-sensitive movement in a rented movie theater. Bill Hybels, their leader, would become a church-growth rock star. Read More…
40 years ago a twenty-something youth pastor and a bunch of creative Christ-followers launched the seeker-sensitive movement in a rented movie theater. Bill Hybels, their leader, would become a church-growth rock star. Read More…