Churches sanction beatings for children as young as infants. Nov. 8, 2011 — -- When Melissa Fletcher was little her mother would dress up in a gray wig and horn-rim glasses, ring the doorbell and ...

In many ways, it’s the least surprising story of our times: A showily Christian conservative holds themselves out to be the moral arbiter for others to follow but is soon exposed as a hypocrite and a ...

In 2023, we committed to following Jesus’s teachings on character building from the Gospels in the Christian Bible. Through our unwavering dedication to this upstanding endeavor, we explored and ...

One youngster at a community for troubled children says he benefited from being made to shovel cow manure in a punishment community leaders nicknamed "school appreciation day."But the local sheriff ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Former students of a Christian school and youth home in Linn County said staff physically abused them as children, according to a new report from the Des Moines Register.