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A Pastor’s Resignation and a Former Student’s Story: More on the Wreckage Wrought by the Fundamentalist Takeover of Cedarville

by William Trollinger Grace Baptist Church. Photo courtesy of CedarSnap The Cedarville University saga goes on and on and on and on and on and on.  But finally, someone has lost their job, apparently for their role in covering up for the sexual offender at the...

“You Are Made to Feel Like an Enemy”: Even More Stories from the Toxic Academic Community that is Cedarville

Introduced by William Trollinger Cedarville President Thomas White in Chapel. Photo credit: Anna DeWine, Xenia Daily Gazette For those of you who have not kept up on the ongoing Cedarville scandal, see here, here, here, here, and here.  And here are some...

A “Culture of Silencing, Denial, and Psychological Manipulation”: The Stories from Cedarville University Just Keep Piling Up

Introduced by William Trollinger Image for Dr. Thomas White’s Chapel Podcast. Image via Cedarville University. Here’s the very short version of what has been going down at Cedarville: Southern Baptist fundamentalist and Paige Patterson protégé Thomas White...

Rape, Sexual Harassment, and More: The Cedarville Stories are Multiplying

by William Trollinger Thomas White, president of Cedarville University with Founders Hall in the background on May 6, 2014. (Columbus Dispatch photo by Tom Dodge) Here is the short version of the Cedarville scandal. (For the full version, see here, here, and here.)...

No Safeguard, No Whole: Why I Left Cedarville University

by Julie L. Moore Julie L. Moore is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Full Worm Moon, which won a 2018 Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Award, and which received honorable mention for the Conference on Christianity and Literature’s 2018 Book of the...

The Scandal Deepens at Cedarville University

by William Trollinger Portrait taken by HAF/IMMP, via thouarttheman Things are bad at Cedarville University, with the revelation a few days ago that in 2017 the school knowingly hired a sexual predator who rapidly became a central figure at the school.  (Go here...