Is There a Room for Preditors in Your Faith?

In georgia, the pastor of a baptist church near atlanta announced it was re examining its hiring practices. Alexander edwards, a volunteer youth pastor, was arrested in two thousand 16 on charges of sexual battery involving an 11 year old boy he had met at the church. Among southern baptists, pastoral assignment is, in one expert's words, kind of the wild west. There's no regulation. Churches make their own policies for deciding who can be a pastor.