What is happening with the SBC and the Department of Justice?
United States RNS Last week, lawyers for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee say they were contacted by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and were told an investigation into the committee’s handling of sexual abuse had been closed. News about the status of the investigation eventually leaked, and on […]
In the US, chaos erupts over SBC legal filing in Louisville abuse lawsuit
United States RNS Abuse survivors, along with some members of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee and the SBC’s abuse reform taskforce, have denounced a Kentucky court filing by Southern Baptist entities aimed at limiting their liability for sexual abuse claims. A brief filed earlier this year by lawyers for the Executive Committee, Southern Baptist […]
A RELUCTANT VOICE: PAIGE PATTERSON’S CAREER ENDED AFTER SHE CAME FORWARD. MEGAN LIVELY’S STRUGGLE CONTINUES
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports from the US on the story of Megan Lively and how her decision to reveal the response to her sexual assault helped move the Southern Baptist Convention toward a reckoning with sex abuse….