Nancy French’s ‘Ghosted’ offers a haunting, helpful read — but not for everyone
The biggest villain — and rightly so — in Nancy French’s memoir “Ghosted: An American Story” is a preacher who gives the seventh-grader a ride home from…
sexual assault
Update: Five employees of Christian school in Texas no-billed by grand jury
May 11, 2022, update: A grand jury has no-billed five employees of Midland Christian School in West Texas who were arrested in February, a prosecutor…
‘Tell somebody. Don’t keep quiet’
SOMERSET, Pa. — For so long, no one knew Alex Howlett's name. In 2011, she confided to her brother Jimmy Hinton that the man he…
A perpetrator in the pews
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — After a longtime youth minister’s recent conviction on corruption of minors and indecent exposure charges, a judge in this western Pennsylvania community…
#ChurchToo: Sexual abuse victims ‘fed up’ with silence
For far too long, victims have been silenced. Finally, they have an outlet to spotlight their painful ordeals. That’s how Jimmy Hinton characterizes the social…
Editorial: Sexual abuse is evil. Period.
Jimmy Hinton is a hero. When a victim told him that Hinton’s father — a respected, longtime preacher — had sexually assaulted her, Hinton listened.…
More on #ChurchToo — Our expanded Q&A with Jimmy Hinton on sexual abuse in churches
For Jimmy Hinton, there was no question: He had to do the right thing, even though it meant turning in his own father. In 2011,…
Not comfortable, but comforted
Today I’m struggling. Sometimes it seems like tragedy has overtaken us. Hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, mass shootings. People dying. People losing their homes. People enduring unthinkable…
#metoo moves Christians to speak up and speak out
Seven years of pain, embarrassment and shame kept Cassie Holder from sharing her story. Then the member of the Del City Church of Christ in…
‘The devil is smart,’ says minister working to protect churches from child predators
The sex, lies and videotapes don't surprise Jimmy Hinton anymore. "No surprise at all," the Pennsylvania preacher said of the latest case to make headlines…
