Untended Fire

  • Move Forward: Save Scouting
  • BSA national committee transparency scores
  • Order of the Arrow cleanliness audit
  • About Untended Fire

Without a bold vision, BSA is doomed within a decade. With Move Forward: Save Scouting, we can be relevant to society, improve programming, ditch unsound practices, and streamline the experience.

BSA’s problems

Speak-to-truth articles about BSA’s cultural rot.

  • When careers come first, Scouting falls apart

    When careers come first, Scouting falls apart

  • BSA excludes the movement from governance

    BSA excludes the movement from governance

  • Only 15% of Scouts are in healthy BSA councils

    Only 15% of Scouts are in healthy BSA councils

  • Scouts BSA: a middle-school program unsuitable for high schoolers

    Scouts BSA: a middle-school program unsuitable for high schoolers

  • In 2024, BSA shrank, recruited fewer youth, risked reputation with weird brand

    In 2024, BSA shrank, recruited fewer youth, risked reputation with weird brand

  • Celebrating a sexist scam, Linked-Troop Wood Badge highlights SA’s cultural rot

    Celebrating a sexist scam, Linked-Troop Wood Badge highlights SA’s cultural rot

  • BSA’s new member model creates embarrassing membership loss

    BSA’s new member model creates embarrassing membership loss

  • OA’s latest mission and vision confirm: time to abolish it

    OA’s latest mission and vision confirm: time to abolish it

  • Boy Scouts’s new initials mean sexual assault

    Boy Scouts’s new initials mean sexual assault

  • OA’s pretendian core ceremonies celebrate racist oppression, mock tribes, must be blown up

    OA’s pretendian core ceremonies celebrate racist oppression, mock tribes, must be blown up

  • BSA’s Summit Bechtel Reserve, a monument to bigotry, is failing

    BSA’s Summit Bechtel Reserve, a monument to bigotry, is failing

  • Graceless and bigoted, BSA’s Declaration of Religious Principle slaps Jesus

    Graceless and bigoted, BSA’s Declaration of Religious Principle slaps Jesus

  • Failing to kill most Cub Scout camping, BSA’s cultural rot on full display

    Failing to kill most Cub Scout camping, BSA’s cultural rot on full display

  • In a possible death spiral, national bets the farm on bureaucrats, not program

    In a possible death spiral, national bets the farm on bureaucrats, not program

  • Boy Scouts’s bumbling CEOs cause inertia, leadership vacuum

    Boy Scouts’s bumbling CEOs cause inertia, leadership vacuum

  • BSA has endemic brownface cosplay

    BSA has endemic brownface cosplay

  • NESA is a moribund clown show, duping recent Eagles

    NESA is a moribund clown show, duping recent Eagles

  • BSA feedback responses: deny then retaliate, intimidate, dismiss, lie, or slander

    BSA feedback responses: deny then retaliate, intimidate, dismiss, lie, or slander

  • Failed councils love fees

    Failed councils love fees

Untended Fire

Apologies for the organization won’t save the movement. Bold, rapid change will.

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