The Rural Blog

A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism, based at the University of Kentucky. Links may expire, require subscription or go behind pay walls. Please send news and knowledge you think would be useful to benjy.hamm@uky.edu.

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Southern Baptist Convention faces issues of declining numbers, women pastors, use of 'abuse reform' database

Sexual assault victims in some rural areas are now able to get examinations through telemedicine services

Misbehaving teachers move from district to district and state to state with relatively little scrutiny

A relative moderate with rural roots is elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, by a wide margin

New report has shocking details about cover-ups of sex-abuse cases by leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention

Pastor known for racial reconciliation work is narrowly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Baptists gather as race, gender issues and politics tribulate their convention and other evangelical churches

National Farm Safety and Health Week is Sept. 20-26

Series about the sexual assault crisis in rural Alaska up for annual Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Database tracks Catholic priests accused of abuse; some names may not appear in your local diocese's list

Failed libel suit by ex-police officer it probed costs rural Iowa weekly big legal bills and lost ads, so it seeks donations

Newspapers' probe details decades of sexual abuse by Southern Baptist pastors and staff, and leaders' failure to act

Southern Baptist Convention distances itself from the GOP

Ala. editor who dealt with owner's long-ago misconduct leaves the paper and the South for High Plains Radio

Alabama newspaper owner admits spanking female employees; his paper struggled with reporting it

Alabama Senate race highlights urban-rural divide, other divisions of politics and culture

Time gives rural America its due in 'Person of the Year' story about 'The Silence Breakers'

AP uses 'sexual misconduct' as broad label for topic