Feb 28, 2019 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, Weekly Words
Dear Friends, Nothing prepares you for the moment when your life changes forever. There are no flashing signs saying, “This is it!” It just happens. In a split second the veil is lifted, reality shifts, and you can no longer deny the truth. It is the moment when every...
Feb 11, 2019 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, +Pam Durso
We read with deep sadness the article in the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News reporting on their investigation of sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches. Our hearts break for the victims and survivors of this abuse and for the trauma that has been...
Jan 29, 2019 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, Weekly Words
Dear Friends, It’s been 2,648 days since I found out I was a victim of clergy sexual misconduct. Specifically video voyeurism. I say “found out” because the actual videotaping took place in November 2008, but I was unaware that I was a victim until my abuser was...
Nov 27, 2018 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, Weekly Words
“Sally” was a young newlywed who went to her Baptist pastor for marital counseling. As she got up to leave his church office that evening, he wrapped his big arms around Sally and kissed her on the lips. She was shocked, pushed her pastor away, and quickly left. As...
Oct 10, 2018 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, Weekly Words
In June 2016, Baptist Women in Ministry and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship formally launched a joint Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force. Members of the task force could not have imagined two years ago the degree to which conversations about sexual abuse would...
Oct 3, 2018 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, +Pam Durso
“Most of us need to have the status quo shaken now and then, leaving us off balance and askew, feeling alienated for a while from our usual unquestioned loyalties. In this uncomfortable space, we can finally recognize the much larger kingdom of God….This pattern of...
