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	Baptistlife Review of " This Little Light" Stop Baptist Predators September 8, 2009 http://stopbaptistpredators.blogspot.com/2009/09/baptistlife-review-of-this-little-light.html Some of you will remember William Thornton, a minister who is a discussion moderator on the BaptistLife site. At the end of 2006, some of you shared pieces of your clergy abuse stories on this site and engaged a lengthy dialogue with other Baptist ministers. I think it was the first big blog discussion ever had on Baptist clergy sex abuse, and I suspect it may have been one of the longest threads ever pursued on the BaptistLife forums. I know it was painful for many of you at the time. The callous harshness of some of the posted responses was very hurtful. Yet, for many of us, we made that painful effort to engage Baptists in a dialogue on clergy sex abuse because we held the vague hope that it might help to open hearts and to eventually bring about change within the denomination. So far, I can't see that there has been much change in the denomination. Baptists are entrenched in mass-scale denial, and compared to other major faith groups, Baptists seem determined to be "lasteth with the leasteth" in addressing clergy sex abuse. But perhaps there has been some small bit of opening in some few hearts. Rev. William Thornton just posted his review of my book on the BaptistLife forums. It's under the Baptist Life & Practice forum (as opposed to the SBC News forum), and he posted it Monday, June 7, under the thread "Christa Brown's book on clergy sexual abuse." I have cut and pasted it below. Thanks, William.
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