North Texas figures prominently in a highly-anticipated report released on Sunday about allegations of sex abuse among Southern Baptist churches. In...
The report says that when leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention learned of allegations of sexual abuse, rather than reporting the accusation to authorities or firing those responsible, they protected the abusers or stonewalled and denigrated the survivors. The report includes Prestonwood and its pastor, Jack Graham, as an example, as well as Paige Patterson, the former president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
In a statement on Sunday, Prestonwood’s executive pastor, Mike Buster, said the church “categorically denies the way the report characterizes the incident 33 years ago.”
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