Birmingham Blues

We’re up over 200 comments in the most recent Ousley thread, so I’m going to open a new one (previous threads here if you need to catch up).  I don’t mean to be flip with the post title — I’m just running out of ideas.  Clearly, this story and its implications have touched many people.  [...]

Catch up here.  In other news, I’ll be out of town this week, but the blog will be well taken care of in my absence.  Be kind to each other.

I’m running out of titles for these things. 
Here are the previous posts.

Catch up here if you like.
A few pointers:  First, keep it civil.  Second, be careful.  This is a public forum, and posting personal information is potentially dangerous.  At the least, if you include your email address in a comment, spammers can grab it, and you can get some of the incredibly disgusting junk that shows up [...]

If you need to catch up, click here for links to the previous threads.
Also, here’s the link to ALmod’s discussion forum.

I’m going to start a new comment thread as the most recent one has become a bit unwieldy.  ALmod was planning to set up a forum, but she has a couple of family members in the hospital, and she needs to focus on them.
Comment at will.
If you want to catch up, see here, here, and here.  Yes, [...]

Readers, I hesitate even to lift the lid off this can of worms again, but the Samford Crimson has a long follow-up article on Rick Ousley’s affair and his resignation as the school’s football chaplain.  Reporter Christopher Smith quotes Donna Jones extensively, and he also says that a number of other women have come forward [...]

I closed comments on my Rick Ousley post tonight.  It was time.
When I first posted the story the morning it broke in the Birmingham News, I expected a few of my regular readers would leave comments, joining me in my speculation about when Mr. Ousley would go into rehab.  I never expected the explosion of interest from [...]

Ongoing indiscretion, actually.
Rick Ousley, founding pastor of The Church at Brook Hills and chaplain for the Samford University football team, has been suspended from his evangelistic ministry after he admitted to “moral and spiritual indiscretion.”
Yeah, an affair that has been going on since 1981?  Pastor Rick only admits to one ”indiscretion”, and he subtly blames his girlfriend for [...]