Damning Report On SBC Abuse Cover Ups Released
An extensive report commissioned by the Southern Baptist Convention details years of cover ups and abuse of victims by the denomination.Stories are now up on the report at the Houston Chronicle and Christianity Today.
The reasons for the cover ups were two fold…to keep abusive men in power and to evade liability for the denomination.
Long time readers here will know that Chuck Smith disbanded the “enforcement” arm of Calvary Chapel primarily to avoid liability…he was “tired of paying for other peoples mistakes”.
We’ll talk more about this report and what will come of it’s findings later in the week.
Russell Moore…
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/may-web-only/southern-baptist-abuse-apocalypse-russell-moore.html
https://www.wdrb.com/news/kentucky-woman-suing-southern-baptist-convention-father-for-sexual-and-physical-abuse/article_acda9662-d8a4-11ec-8e59-8fbd2a41f8ad.html
Why did Moore, head of the Ethics Commission, know nothing of these things or has this been his project until he resigned?
BrianD,
I follow Hannah on Twitter…it will be interesting to see how the lawsuit is resolved.
I think he was working on these issues…and was getting stonewalled.
That’s what I recall at least…
Sickening. Surprising? Sadly, no.
There is much reason to pray…
Covid killed millions — the shutdowns were always destined to ultimately kill more in the subsequent years… and covid is not done … it may wreck China before it’s over both by disease and the disease of totalitarian blindness.
Meanwhile we wage a proxy war in Ukraine… one that we dare not lose and dare not quickly win I once lamented the serpentine choking of Ukraine. Now it appears that the slow suffering of Ukraine will serve so many purposes (evil purposes) that it will kill many millions more by interruptions of food supply chains … a global food crisis is coming fast.
I wondered as I watched why democrat and republican so easily united to send billions to fuel the war. So I began to dig around… the reasons are predictably self-serving.
None of us knows what will happen but when we combine the lowering birth rates in the West … the 40 years of 1 child policy in China and the end of globalizing forces in the world economy … famine disease and wars will likely be the legacy of the next 50 years…
I lament the SBC sins… they are unsurprising… but the apocalypse that looms … is unthinkable
https://www.theblaze.com/news/southern-baptist-church-leaders-minimized-sex-abuse-lied-to-congregants-for-years-independent-report-finds