#ChurchToo Archives - Page 70 of 82 - MinistryWatch
An Indiana pastor has stepped down after his admission from the pulpit that he had had an “adulterous relationship” years ago led to a confrontation with his alleged victim.
Moving to show repentance after Sunday’s (May 22) release of an investigative report that found that Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled abuse and mistreated survivors for decades, the denomination’s governing body vowed to mend its ...
For three minutes last summer, a call to investigate how Southern Baptist leaders have dealt with sexual abuse was dead in the water. Then a little-known denominational bylaw and a pastor from Indiana saved it.
For decades, a handful of leaders in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination treated sexual abuse survivors as enemies of the church, denied responsibility for the actions of local churches, and downplayed the number of sexual ...
A Speech to the Restore Conference – Judson University
MinistryWatch President Warren Smith delivered the following address to the Restore Conference held at Judson University on May 20-21, 2022. To hear this speech, click here.
The former senior pastor of an Indiana megachurch has been released from prison nine months early after serving nine years of a sentence for sexually abusing an underage girl. Jack Schaap, 64, who previously led ...
A former Tennessee youth pastor and basketball coach pleaded guilty in federal court May 15 to sexual exploitation of children.
(RNS) In July 2021, Stewart Ruch III, bishop of the Anglican Church in North America’s Upper Midwest Diocese, went on leave after making what he called “regrettable errors” in handling cases of abuse in the ...
The investigation of alleged mishandling of sexual abuse has cost the Southern Baptist Convention more than $1.7 million so far, a number that exceeds the original estimate made last fall.
On Tuesday (April 5), a group of self-identified survivors and advocates who attended an Anglican church in Washington, D.C., published an open letter saying diocesan leaders mishandled their allegations of spiritual abuse. The letter asks ...
