UPDATE:
You can read an HTML version of the report here. We’re still formatting and updating it with hyperlinks, but it’s much easier to navigate as well as cut & paste.Safe link:
CREC Presiding Ministers’ Report 2017
Source file here.
‘Then said he unto the disciples, “It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him’ (Luke 17:1–3).
Scandals will come, the Lord says. Nevertheless, the one who brings them is held responsible, and cannot appeal to the ‘way things are,’ or to his own valiant efforts to fulfill the Lord’s prophecy. Such a man is held responsible in a striking way. If he scandalizes ‘one of these little ones,’ it would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea. In other words, what is actually going to happen to him is going to be a whole lot worse than that.
Douglas Wilson
Douglas Wilson does not fight to protect the Sitler child from his family because Douglas Wilson supports allowing Steven Sitler to live in the same home as his son. Continue reading
“Make no mistake — it is terrible when a child has to live within range of a sexual predator.” —Douglas Wilson Continue reading
If Douglas Wilson didn’t have a double standard, he wouldn’t have any standard at all. Continue reading
Rape is a criminal act for which the rapist alone is responsible. This is well settled law.
— Boz Tchividjian (@BozT) July 5, 2017
“Recently, a man convicted of lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor child under the age of 16 was released on parole after serving 20 months of a life sentence. He is a first-time offender.” Continue reading
Ask Steven Sitler’s son. Continue reading
Read this and tell me why anyone is still supporting this man with a platform. Vile: https://t.co/A0HTKVbNYr pic.twitter.com/22BHDViuUF
— Aimee Byrd (@aimeebyrdhwt) February 24, 2017
The unbelievable blog post in which Doug Wilson believes sex abuse survivors to be liars and shames them. https://t.co/C9wpFSVTL3
— Julie Anne (@DefendTheSheep) February 23, 2017
This in a nutshell is the truth about Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. Continue reading
Organizing the Kirk freak show. Continue reading
We unfortunately live in a time when child abuse is common, and given the way things are going, tragic instances of it are likely to increase. . . . In the first place, when plausible suspicion arises that child abuse has occurred or is occurring, the first priority is to ensure that it does not continue in the present circumstance, and that it does not continue into the future, in any other circumstance. . . . No conscientious pastor can be willingly complicit in a child having to spend one more minute under the control of his abuser. . . . There are times when an anemic response of a church to a child abuse tragedy is a response that simply makes the blast radius bigger. . . .
Douglas Wilson
Over the years, I have seen many hard cases of difficult kids not effectively loved by their fathers. Because I don’t see the problem disappearing, I thought I would post a series of short pointed exhortations to a dad who has a problem child. The child actually has a problem dad, but the child doesn’t think that. He is too confused, lost, and hurting to think about much of anything. I am going write these posts in the second person. I have no particular people in view; these problems should be taken as a composite. But I trust that some of those who read these posts here will see the applicability to their own situations. When I am talking about a boy I will call him Jon, and when she is a girl I will call her Mary.
Douglas Wilson