LINK TO WATCH LIVE AT 7PM EST/6 PM CST
Yesterday there was a 300+ page report that came out documenting the failings, cover-ups and pure evil that disguised itself as the underbelly of the world’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. To clearly state: there are MILLIONS of wonderful and lovely people within evangelicalism, the SBC, etc. And there are cowardly despicable ones as well who hopefully will be held to account due to this initial report.
(For anyone new here, you can read an overview of my story here: It’s my victim impact statement made at the sentencing of Mark Aderholt, the SBC seminary student, youth pastor, missionary, and eventually South Carolina SBC executive who sexually abused me in 1996 when I was 16 years old.)
With this report, I decided to cut my Twitter and other social media since I was mostly using it to advocate and feel this chapter in my life is permanently closed. I got a message from a producer at PBS Newshour a couple hours ago (when I was on a bike ride, of course!) asking if I could do a live interview today with a response. I figure it would be a solid way to finish the race, to put a biblical metaphor to it.
Feel free to tune in at 7 pm EST / 6 pm CST to watch. Or don’t. Whatever you do, do something you love.
Thank you all for the support over the last couple of years. ❤️