Walk Away from Fundamentalism

Forum member jmassi has put together an audio documentary about the alleged abuse perpetrated by Charles Shifflett of Culpeper Virginia. The Lambs of Culpeper is an exploration of former members of Shifflett’s church and the alleged verbal, mental, physical, and sexual abuse they experienced at Calvary Baptist Church of Culpeper Virginia. Give it a listen, but be prepared: It’s pretty disturbing stuff and can be hard to listen to without getting upset. I offer my sympathies to everyone featured in the documentary.

Also interesting are some letters of support and letters of criticism regarding Shifflett from the Star-Exponent, including the comments underneath the letters. Of note are supporters’ comments chiding others that Shifflett is “innocent until proven guilty.” To that I would remind the writers that “innocent until proven guilty” only applies to courts of law. Those who know Charles Shifflett and believe the allegations because of their familiarity with him are free to do so.

It’s been tossed around in the forums for quite a while about changing to new software for the Walkawayers, and I finally got it done. Give this a little time, and there should be a lot of new and interesting content up here. There are still a few bugs to work out, and I’d like to make the default colors a bit more cheery. But it’s still way better than the old setup.

All of the old resources are listed under “Pages” in the column to the side of this post. All of the links have been checked as of 5/15/06, so they should all be good. If you find a bad link, please let me know.

If you have a resource, link, question, comment, would like to volunteer, or otherwise need to contact me: I’m the webmaster, and the site is walkawayers.org. Put those two together, and you can email me. (I’d put the address together myself, but it just invites the evil spambots.)