What Beth Moore and Max Lucado have in common. This is Jim Denison's daily article for Wednesday, December 19, 2018.

Beth Moore and Max Lucato made headlines at a recent conference in ways you might not expect. A one-day summit on sexual abuse and harassment was held at Wheaton College.

As the organizer explained, the group meant to help amplify a conversation on this difficult subject.

Beth Moore was the featured speaker.

Her story of sexual abuse was shared by others who spoke.

Then Max Lucato closed the conference by sharing, for the first time, his own story of sexual

abuse as a child.

They are not alone.

According to a recent survey, eight and ten pastors know someone who has experienced

domestic or sexual violence. A fifth of the clergy has experienced such violence themselves,

including sexual assault, rape, or child sexual abuse. In other news, Southern Baptist Theological

Seminary released a report detailing the school's extensive historical ties to slavery, the Confederacy, and white supremacy.

The study found that all four founders of the school, one of the oldest and most influential

seminaries in the U.S., owned slaves.

Other findings.

Early faculty and trustees defended slavery as righteous, the seminary supported the Confederacy

during the Civil War, and the

school opposed racial equality well until the 20th century.

Albert Mueller Jr., the seminary's longtime president, prefaced the report, saying,

We are living in an age of historical reckoning.

The moral burden of history requires a far more direct and far more candid acknowledgment

of the legacy of the school in the horrifying realities of American slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racism, and even the

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