Twenty Years Ago: The Beginning of Activist Efforts to Prod SBC Abuse Reform – BishopAccountability.org

20 years ago, I wrote SBC leaders to warn them about abuse. They are still not listening.

(RNS) — For more than 20 years, Southern Baptist leaders have refused to take responsibility for keeping abusers out of church.

Twenty Years Ago: The Beginning of Activist Efforts to Prod SBC Abuse Reform – BishopAccountability.org

What’s changed since then and what hasn’t Think back twenty years to August 2006. George W. Bush was president, iPhones didn’t exist yet, and Twitter was just a month old. That was when I wrote a letter to then Southern Baptist Convention president Frank Page, describing how the Southern Baptist pastor who sexually abused me as a kid – repeatedly and severely – had been allowed to continue in ministry even though other church leaders knew at the…