The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., is facing a reckoning over its handling of sexual abuse. Here's what to know.
Controversy over Paige Patterson, former president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, helped ignite national conversation about abuse in the SBC.The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., is facing a reckoning over its handling of sexual abuse.
a federal investigation into sexual abuse within the denomination, Southern Baptist Convention leaders announced. They said they planned to cooperate with investigators.national conversation about abuse in the denomination. Patterson also served as a president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1998 to 2000.after receiving information regarding his handling of an allegation of sexual abuse at another school affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
In January 2023, the indictment said Stovall created a document that described the allegation of sexual abuse and the seminary’s failure to respond and cooperate with its subpoena. Queen allegedly gave what he called meeting notes to federal investigators to corroborate his claim that he had not heard the conversation about making a document “go away.”
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