Sexual abuse training has now become a graduation requirement for students at the Dallas Theological Seminary. Prospective ministers are now required to take "Ministry Safety" a one-hour entry- level certificate program. There are plans for a fuller course to be offered at the school in the spring which will require forty hours of training. Mark Yarbrough, vice president of the school's academic affairs, spoke with the Dallas Morning News and said, "...this is a way we can help students become informed so that when they are leaders, they are better equipped on how to establish appropriate parameters in working with children." Daniel Aleshire, executive director of the Association of Theological Schools, was interviewed by the Religious News Service and said "the offerings are unique, especially for a religious school. “This is the first I know of an evangelical seminary with a free-standing requirement for graduation to participate in this kind of discrete training.” These requirements for this class was due to the awareness of the controversial Catholic Church's clergy sexual abuse crisis.
http://religionnews.com/2016/09/15/dallas-evangelical-seminary-requires-sex-abuse-awareness-training/
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