The Roys Report

Note: This story contains details about child sexual abuse. South Carolinian parents sued a Southern Baptist church four times in five days, accusing leaders of hiding the fact a confessed sex offender worked at the church school. One claims that custodian Warren Spence Perry, 70, sodomized a 5-year-old child in an obscene “game.” Pastor Don […]

Brian Doerksen, the Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote “Come, Now Is the Time to Worship,” died Tuesday at his home in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. He was 60 and had battled stage 4 cancer. Doerksen died “peacefully in his sleep” at 6:45 a.m., “surrounded by those who loved him most,” according to a family statement shared […]

Finding the definition of a “biblical church” became a linchpin in the unsuccessful lawsuit filed by some members of Second Baptist Church of Houston against the leadership of their megachurch. Texas Business Court Judge Grant Dorfman dismissed the entire case July 15 by appealing to what’s called the “ecclesial abstention doctrine.” This legal precept — […]

Warning: This story includes descriptions of explicit material. A Virginia Baptist pastor and church conference speaker has been charged in Pennsylvania for sending explicit images of himself to a teenage boy. Kenneth Kevin Baldwin, 47, lead pastor of Crossroads Baptist Church in northern Virginia, is facing 13 charges, including unlawful contact with a minor and […]

The wife and son of a Mississippi Baptist pastor are facing felony charges after investigators said a 14-year-old girl living with them became pregnant. Dawson James Brown, 27, was arrested July 17 on one count of statutory rape, two counts of sexual battery and one count of human trafficking, the Pearl River County Sheriff’s Office […]