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Southern Baptist Convention in Anaheim approves resolutions designed to fight sex abuse

ANAHEIM, Calif. — More than 8,000 members of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to take action to stem a sexual abuse scandal that has stunned members and caused rifts within the largest Protestant denomination in America.

Los Angeles Times

US Southern Baptists to keep sex abuser list after ignored claims

The pledge falls short of demands by some survivors, including compensation and stronger independent monitoring.

Al Jazeera

Southern Baptists: More MAGA than ever

America's largest Protestant denomination is dominated by the right — but still fears creeping "wokeism"

Salon

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Southern Baptists agree to keep list of accused sex abusers

The vote on sex-abuse reforms, just weeks after the release of a report on the long-simmering scandal, fell short of what some abuse survivors in Southern Baptist churches sought.

WEKU

Texas pastor Bart Barber elected Southern Baptist president

The Southern Baptist Convention has elected a new president — Texas pastor Bart Barber

The Independent UK

Southern Baptist Convention passes 2 reforms on sexual abuse

The reforms passed include a "mechanism to track credible accusations against ministers and pastors."

Axios

Southern Baptists agree to keep list of accused sex abusers

The Southern Baptist Convention has voted overwhelmingly to create a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse

The Independent UK

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Patriarchy and purity culture combine to silence women in the Southern Baptist Convention – and are blocking efforts to address the sexual abuse scandal

A devastating yearlong investigation into the executive committee of the largest conservative evangelical denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, has documented widespread claims of sex abuse including accusations of rape, cover-ups and gross mistreatment of women seeking justice.

The Conversation

Southern Baptists who backed open abuse review win key roles

The top administrative committee for the Southern Baptist Convention has elected new leaders

The Independent UK

North Texas pastor among candidates for next president of Southern Baptist Convention

DALLAS — Members of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, will have an important decision to make at their annual meeting this week: who to elect as their next president.

Tribune News Service

#ChurchToo revelations growing, years after movement began

Recent weeks have seen an especially intense set of revelations about sexual assault and misconduct in U.S. churches

The Independent UK

US Southern Baptist churches facing ‘apocalypse’ over sexual abuse scandal

A report named hundreds of church leaders accused or found guilty of abusing children and says survivors were mistreated

The Guardian - US

Q&A: Talking about the Southern Baptist sex abuse scandal with Pastor P.J. Tibayan

LOS ANGELES — More than 8,000 Southern Baptists will descend on Anaheim next week for the annual meeting of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States — the first time in 41 years that the two-day meeting has been held in California.

Los Angeles Times

Southern Baptists Face Up to Sexual Abuse

“The rot runs deep in this institution.”

Texas Observer

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Los Angeles Times

Commentary: The Southern Baptists are having a come-to-Jesus moment

When Jesus became exasperated with the religious leaders of his day, he called them “blind guides” who “strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.” In the wake of the recent searing public revelations of sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention, that description applies to the leadership of the…

WEKU

Southern Baptist leaders release a previously secret list of accused sexual abusers

In response to an explosive investigation, a list has been released of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of abuse. The cases largely span from 2000-2019.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The Southern Baptist blasphemy

While the Catholic Church has spent much of the last three decades wrestling with deeply painful revelations of priestly sexual abuse and the bishops’ callous disregard for the people in their care, many American Protestant denominations self-righteously wagged fingers at the Catholic hierarchy for tolerating pedophile priests when they knew…

The Independent UK

Southern Baptist leaders release secret accused abuser list

Top Southern Baptists have released a previously secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse

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Southern Baptist leaders plan to release a secret list of accused sex abusers

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention said they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse.

The Independent UK

Top Southern Baptists plan to release secret list of abusers

Southern Baptist leaders say they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and church-affiliated staff members accused of sexual abuse

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Southern Baptist Convention must confront its own sexual abuse scandal

A third-party organization brought in by the Southern Baptist Convention to investigate allegations of systemic sexual abuse within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination found its leaders ignored and even “vilified” the victims, and knew more about the perpetrators than they admitted. The abuses occurred over a two-decade period, accentuating the…

Tribune News Service

Top Southern Baptist leaders minimized sexual abuse claims, ‘ignored or even vilified’ victims to protect abusers, report says

Top leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention mishandled sexual abuse claims, while ignoring — or even vilifying — victims to protect abusers, an explosive new report released Sunday has found.

The Independent UK

Southern Baptists face push for public list of sex abusers

A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the first time, will create a publicly accessible database of pastors known to be abusers

Salon

Why anti-choice churches protect abusers

As with the Catholic church scandal, what ties sexual abuse to anti-choice activism is a belief in male supremacy

The Guardian - US

Southern Baptist leaders ‘stonewalled’ sex abuse victims, scathing report says

Survivors who reported abuse to executive committee were ‘ignored’ as leaders were ‘singularly focused on avoiding liability’

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