Good Advice

A sermon delivered by Howard Batson, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Amarillo, Tx., on October 9, 2011. Hebrews 13:1-8 Sex, power, money, and suffering.  Tomorrow’s newspaper will be full of these titillating topics.  It’s what sells.  It’s what some people think makes...

The Strange Sexual Obsessions at Southern Seminary

I don’t think there’s anything weirder than religious sexual obsession. Sex is tough enough without layering our obsession about it with some bizarre religious viewpoint. Jim Jones was obsessed with sex. David Koresh couldn’t keep his hands off his...

It’s Not About Sex

Thinking that clergy sex abuse is about sex is like thinking the Bataan Death March was about marching.Yet, over and over again, Southern Baptist leaders talk about clergy sex abuse as though it were just another form of “sexual sin.” Repeatedly,...