Jun 14, 2022 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force
By CBF-BWIM Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task ForceIn the summer of 2016, CBF’s Ministries Council in partnership with Baptist Women in Ministry formed the Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force to address and prevent clergy sexual abuse in our congregations and communities....
Apr 29, 2020 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, Weekly Words
In this season of coronavirus, church staff members have gone to heroic lengths to offer worship, prayer, Bible study, and fellowship through electronic means. They have used Facebook Live and Zoom, phone calls, emails, and text messages as vehicles for pastoral care...
Mar 10, 2020 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, Weekly Words
In the early years of my social work career, I started volunteering at a rape crisis center in Louisville, Kentucky. I would be on call and respond to hospital calls whenever they had a rape victim walk into their ER. I went on to become a therapist, providing...
Jan 28, 2020 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, Weekly Words
Not all that long ago in America the ministry was a respected profession. Now trust in pastors as people of moral character is at an all-time low. High profile scandals involving sexual misconduct by clergy have contributed to the gradual erosion of public confidence....
Sep 17, 2019 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, Weekly Words
I’m struck by the frequency that some Christians label any sexual activity between a married pastor and an adult congregant who is not their spouse: an affair. It is no accident that people easily go there. The fact that it is so easy to go there has deep roots in the...
Jul 18, 2019 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, Weekly Words
To my Sisters in Christ, Do you realize, have any inkling, as to the strength imbedded in the title BWIM? Just the words, “Baptist Women in Ministry,” connotates the long fought for validation women like me who grew up in the Church of the fifties, sixties, and...
