Why We Publish the Documents

When we founded The Crozier Report, we made one decision before we wrote a single word: no reader would ever have to take our word for anything.

The church has heard too many words. Press releases from embattled ministries. Statements from law firms. Apologies drafted by crisis consultants and read by men who did not write them. Words are cheap, and the sheep have paid the price for them often enough.

So we publish the documents. Every investigative story on this site links to the filings, the bank statements, the nondisclosure agreements, the court records on which it rests. When we say a ministry spent donor money on a private jet, the tail number and the purchase agreement are in the Evidence Desk. When we say a board knew, the minutes are there.

This is not a stylistic choice. It is a theological one. The Bereans were commended not for believing Paul but for examining the Scriptures daily to see if what he said was so. If the apostolic gospel itself was rightly subjected to verification, then no claim made by this paper is above it.

Some will say this approach is unloving. We answer that love protects the flock, and protection requires knowledge. A shepherd who sees the wolf and stays silent is not gentle; he is complicit.

Read our reporting. Then read our sources. If we have erred, our corrections policy is public and our inbox is open. But do not ask us to whisper when the documents are shouting.