The Southern Baptist Convention continues to reel from a historic report that detailed two decades of attempts by leaders to silence sexual abuse survivors. Here is a brief timeline of major events that led up to the Guidepost report last week:
bragged about counseling a woman whose husband beat her. Patterson bragged that the woman once showed up to church with two black eyes, but that her husband had also come to church – a sign of restoration, in Patterson’s view. In another sermon, Patterson referred to a 16-year-old churchgoer as “built,” language he justified as Biblical.saying he concealed or mishandled their rape reports while Patterson was president of various SBC seminaries.
They advanced a constitutional amendment on abuse and empowered a committee to intake abuse reports and, after making voluntary “inquiries” into churches’ handling of abuse, refer those congregations to the executive committee to decide if the church should be booted from the SBCThe SBC’s public policy arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, hosted the “Caring Well Conference,” a three-day event focused solely on abuse issues.
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