SALT LAKE CITY (UT)
Deseret News

December 4, 2017

By Kelsey Dallas

SALT LAKE CITY — The recent onslaught of sexual assault allegations has left few industries untouched. Hollywood producers, politicians, celebrities, Silicon Valley insiders and journalists have been outed as abusers, prompting a depressing question: Who’s next?

“We’re in a time of reckoning,” said Dan Darling, vice president for communications for the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

This reckoning is playing out in mostly secular settings, but it’s centered on moral and spiritual concerns. Religious leaders have a role to play in ongoing conversations about sex and power, said Charlie Camosy, an associate professor of ethics at Fordham University.

“We’re at this cultural moment where we don’t quite know what to do,” he said. “It would be odd to not have all hands on deck to try to rethink our sexual culture.”

Yet,…