Jeri M. Massi (born 4 September 1960) is a contract technical writer and a minor Evangelical Christian author whose novel Valkyries: Some Through the Fire (2003) was nominated for a Christy Award. Since 2001, Massi has become an opponent of Fundamentalist churches' policies toward child molestation committed by members of the clergy, focusing on churches in which the leadership, and sometimes the entire congregation, has enforced silence on victims of abuse.

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  • Jeri M. Massi (born 4 September 1960) is a contract technical writer and a minor Evangelical Christian author whose novel Valkyries: Some Through the Fire (2003) was nominated for a Christy Award. Since 2001, Massi has become an opponent of Fundamentalist churches' policies toward child molestation committed by members of the clergy, focusing on churches in which the leadership, and sometimes the entire congregation, has enforced silence on victims of abuse. Massi argues that rigid adherence to the teachings of Jack Hyles and the King-James-Only Movement are typical characteristics of such churches. After compiling a list of abusive clergy who have never been subject to church censure or discipline, Massi accused Baptist Fundamentalists of abusing children, arguing that fundamentalists have refused to expel abusive pastors, including those convicted of sex offenses. In 2005, Massi produced a five-part audio documentary, The Lambs of Culpeper, and released it onto the Internet for free download. The documentary addresses alleged abuses against children at Calvary Baptist Church of Culpeper, Virginia, a church then pastored by Charles Shifflett. In 2007, Massi founded the Conference of the Lambs, a two-day conference designed to assist adults who had been molested as children in Fundamentalist churches. In 2008 Massi published Schizophrenic Christianity, which denounced corruption within Christian Fundamentalism that had resulted in harm, especially to children.
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  • August 2008
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  • Jeri M. Massi (born 4 September 1960) is a contract technical writer and a minor Evangelical Christian author whose novel Valkyries: Some Through the Fire (2003) was nominated for a Christy Award. Since 2001, Massi has become an opponent of Fundamentalist churches' policies toward child molestation committed by members of the clergy, focusing on churches in which the leadership, and sometimes the entire congregation, has enforced silence on victims of abuse.
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  • Jeri Massi
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