How should the church respond to pastors and leaders who have sexually abused those under them,

and should abusers ever be put in a position of leadership again?

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church.

I'm Julie Roy's.

And today I'm going to be discussing a major controversy at Cedarville University

in Cedarville, Ohio, and it involves a professor who was recently fired for sexual misconduct.

Joining me to do that is Dr. Diane Langberg, a globally recognized expert in trauma and sexual

abuse. If you follow me online, you likely already know what happened this week

involving Cedarville University, but for those who don't, here's a brief recap. Cedarville

this week fired Dr. Anthony Moore, who had been serving as a special advisor to the president

for kingdom diversity and as an assistant professor of theology. He also served as an assistant

basketball coach. But here's what's surprising, some may even say shocking. In 2017, Dr. Moore was

fired as a campus pastor from the village church in Fort Worth, Texas for sexual misconduct.

According to the elders at the village church, Dr. Moore had secretly

videotaped a male youth pastor showering at Moore's home on multiple occasions. And what's even

more surprising is that Cedarville hired Dr. Moore knowing about his history. According to Cedarville

University president, Dr. Thomas White, the hiring was part of a

five-year restoration plan for Dr. Moore that involved accountability and boundaries, yet within one

year, Dr. Moore was made a professor, and in February, Moore even chaperoned a group of students

on a service trip to Boston. Now, White told me that he knew all about Moore's

past when he hired him except for one detail. That detail was that Moore's abuse occurred

over a span of several months. In an interview last Wednesday, Dr. White told me that he knew

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