Recent content by jeriwho

Yes, the shame and the duplicity lie in the fact that the SBC claims that their system of church polity is Biblical, and a single reading of the book called Acts of the Apostles shows you that it is not. The SBC is a big engine that churrns out both sincere and corrupt agents onto an...

You're doggone right about that. The Southern Baptist Convention could take a lesson from such a process. If they had checked Silsby's credentials and legal and financial history (which the Bible does command) before letting her take a team down there, this entire catastrophe could have been...

As of Saturday (two days ago) the judge in the case was saying he sees no tie between the Puello case and the missionaries that would make them one case: http://www.idahostatesman.com/235/story/1079244.html So far, nobody has found any link between him and Silsby prior to his contacting...

What Silsby needed was a truckload of kids, situated at her "orphanage", which would have provided her the opportunity for a photo shoot so that she could make up brochures and send them to churches in the US to drum up money. I don't think she was expressly hunting children to sell. I think she...

Decades ago, Diane Sawyer (either on Primetime Live or 20/20) and a team of reporters visited one of the impoverished countries to our south as part of an expose of television evangelists. They landed, at one point, at a small orphanage, run by a very genial man who had about a dozen or so...

If you want to follow a clear trail of abuses in the SBC, which the SBC has covered up for decades, you can check Christa Brown's STOP BAPTIST PREDATORS sites. She has a "tracking site" that keeps track of cases, and a blog in which she explores cases in depth: Tracking Site...