Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Prominent Conservative Christian Leaders charged with sexual assault. #notjustcatholicpriests #churchtoo

Context matters. Please read this first:

Catching the evil pedophile cabal in a global Pornocracy
 
I started this list of conservative pastors, who seemed to practice quite differently to what the "family values" they preached, in the late 1990s - early 2000s, after pillars of Christian patriarchy, such as Jimmy Swaggart, Bill Gothard, Jim Bakker and Doug Phillips toppled off their lofty moral pedestals.

I knew then that the gender hierarchy, "male headship" doctrine was a serious error of doctrine that would lead to terrible fruit. Because it was un-biblical, inaccurate, prejudicial and unjust.

I could not have known then that part of the rotten fruit from this bad root would involve endless tens of thousands of cases of sexual abuse perpetrated by the very church leaders who preached morality and purity from their pulpits.
 
Or that this foundational error would also groom the church to accept other forms of delusion, such as Qanon, Christian Nationalism, MAGA Trump-ism and algorithmic Covid disinformation - which contributed to a Covid death toll of over 1 million Americans.
 
Every day, every week, there's names to add to this ever-growing list of abusers.
 
Not church MEMBERS.
 
Church LEADERS.

There's just too many.
 
 
"Just take them and leave me alone" by Raoof Haghighi     

The Sin of Silence - the epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church 
by Joshua Pease - a graduate of the evangelical/fundamentalism home-schooling movement. May 31, 2018
 
 
Gary Arivett, pastor at Shiloh Apostolic Church in Henning
- charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child in his own family

Henry Abottlong time member at Faith Baptist Church in Wildomar, CA
- arrested for attempting to solicit sex from a minor

charged with 29 counts of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Alabama 
 
Daniel M. Acker Jr., youth minister, Westwood Baptist Church,Alabaster

- pleaded guilty in 2012 to eight counts of child sexual abuse and was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Mark Aderholt, SBC/ IMB

Johnny Allen, Sunday School teacher, Youth Minister

- raped and impregnated a teenage girl

Agape Bible Church, Thornton, Colorado

Ralph Lee Aaron, pastor, Grace Christian Fellowship Church, Andalusia, AL
- charged with 152 counts of sodomy, sexual abuse, sexual torture and possession of obscene matter involving children
 
Wayne Aarum, director of Christian youth camp, Circle C Ranch, Buffalo NY
- alleged “pattern of inappropriate behaviors" 

Jerry Lee Anderson, headline minister at “The Prophetic Crusade”, Knoxville, TN
- arrested for failing to register as a sex offender
 
 
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Todd Baldwin, director at Valley Christian Schools
- arrested for CSAM 

Benjamin Baldiviez, Sunday School teacher
 
Michael Baxter, youth pastor, Michigan
- sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping multiple children aged 11-15 
 
Jeffrey Bedwell, pastor, Chets Creek Church in Jacksonville, Florida.
- jailed for 30 years after sexually abusing a girl from age 12 to age 17

Mark Allen Benson, pastor, 69, Community of Christ Church, Iowa
- pled guilty to child sex abuse & repeated rape of 10 year old. Victim statement called him a wolf in sheep's clothing.
 
Luke Bese, youth pastor, CA 
- sentenced to a year in prison for grooming a child in his church.
 
 
 Jeffrey Bedwell, pastor, Chets Creek Church, FL
- arrested for allegedly grooming and sexually molesting a young girl from the age of 12 until she turned 17.
 
Robert William Becker, 76, Heritage Academy teacher, Hagerstown
- charged with child sexual abuse in connection to offenses committed from 1976-77

Todd Bentley, Fresh Fire USA

- charged with 'indecency with child'

Larry Michael Berkley, Pastor, Tennessee

Courtney Biggs, youth pastor, Medford, Oregon 

- indicted for child pornography

Garrett Biggerstaff, 28, pastor of Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church and school athletic director, Fairfield, Illinois

- sentenced to three years in prison for felony grooming
 
Mike Bickle, founder, International House of Prayer, Kansas City
- allegations of sexual abuse spanning decades, attempted to manipulate and intimidate victims who came forward. Declared "unfit for ministry".
 
Maxwell Bohn, 77, youth pastor, South Carolina
- arrested for sexting to a child in his youth group.
 
Tony Ernest Bunton, pastor, Iredell County, North Carolina
- sexual exploitation of a minor.
 
Dustin Boles, Mosaic Church, Acts 29  
 

Bob Jones University 

- blamed victims, advised victims not to report sexual assault to police in order to protect the reputation of the institution (as per 2014 independent report).

John Blanchard, pastor, Rock Church Virginia Beach, VA

- arrested for soliciting 'sex' from minors 

Reed Bogard, Pastor, Hillsong, Dallas, TX

- resigned after being accused of raping a young staffer he had an affair with.

- accused of sexually abusing two girls under the age of 14

- charged with enticing a child for sexual act, sodomy, traveling to meet a child for sexual act and sexual abuse involving six different victims between the ages of 13 and 16.

Walter John Bowen, music minister, First Baptist Church, Spanish Fort, AL

- sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2010 after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a child under 12.

Gregory "Lee" Bowman, director of health and wellness, Eden Westside Baptist Church, Pell City, AL

- indicted in 2010 for one count of sodomy and one count of sexual abuse of minors.

Steve Bratton, Grace Family Baptist Church

arrested on charges of child sex abuse

Steven J. Brenneman, Amish Community, Ulysses, Potter County

" ... one daughter, “said she didn't want to but she did because he told her that she must obey her father. Due to her strict Christian upbringing (the daughter) related that she believed that if she didn't obey her father she would be sinning.”

 William Frank Brown, Pastor, Texas 

- indicted on four counts of sexual assault of a child and four counts of indecency with a child

Kevin Buelow, 50, Catholic school teacher, Wisconsin

- found guilty of molesting two 4th grade girls

Tony Bunton, 66, pastor, Fairview Baptist Church, Statesville, NC.

- sentenced to 4 years prison for CSAM

Martin Burns, pastor of Winamac Nazarene Church, Indiana. 

- charged with two criminal counts of battery of a 4 year old.

Herman C. Rushing Jr., 68, Pastor, of Butler PA

- charged with sexual assault of two minors


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Dino Cardelli, 49, pastor, First Calvary Church of Arcata, McKinleyville, CA
sentenced to 16 years in state prison in 2011 after pleading guilty to sexually abusing and molesting his two adopted daughters, one of whom was 13 years old at the time. His wife committed suicide after finding out.
 
Marvin Carey, pastor, Parma Christian Church, Ohio
- sentenced  to 18 years in prison on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition.

William Pinckney Carpenter, youth leader, Baptist church in South Carolina
- arrested for multiple sex crimes against children; arrested again for molesting a little girl on a church bus.
 
Jeremy Chesser, foster parent & alumni of Word of Life Bible Institute 
- arrested for CSAM & admitted to sexual abuse of children as young as two years old.

Monte Lavell Chitty, 62, senior pastor, First Baptist Church, Marathon
- charged with sexual battery of a minor, i.e. raping a 15 year old girl at his church. Chitty shared anti-LBTQI rhetoric on his social media.

Conner Coleman, 22, youth pastor, Mississippi
- arrested for child molestation.

Nicholas Garrett Corl, 26, youth pastor, Mountain Ave Baptist Church & Calvary Christian School teacher
- charged with molestation of a child under 14 on church property.

- found guilty of aggravated sexual assault and indecency with a 10 year old girl    
 
Carlos Ramos Castrejon, pastor, Ministerious Generacion Josue, Morgan Hill, CA
- arrested on suspicion of child molestation

Bruxy Cavey, pastor, The Meeting House Church, Oakville, Ontario
- charged with sexual assault, multiple victims

Timothy Chun-Chuck Mann, Minister, Alabama   

- one of 22 Alabama pastors charged with sex crimes

charged with five counts of child molestation and three of aggravated assault
 
Chris Conlee, Founding Pastor, Highpoint Church, Memphis TN
- defended sexual predator Andy Savage

Neville Cooper, Gloriavale Christian Community, New Zealand
- convicted of child sexual abuse 

Michael Coghill, pastor, Lakehoma Church of Christ, Mustang, Oklahoma
- charged with lewd acts to a child 
 
Cameron Cotrill, 66, church media volunteer, Center Pointe Church in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
- pled guilty to possessing 9900 CSAM images.

Nicholas Garrett Corl, youth pastor, Calvary Christian School, Banning, CA
- charged with felony lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age

Michael Alan Crippen, Pastor, Missouri 
- sentenced to 3 years prison for possessing child pornography.                                                              
 
 
- arrested on 8 counts of sexual abuse of minors

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Keith Dodd, pastor, Lewark Church of God, Coffeyville, Kansas
- arrested on charges of rape of a minor.
 
Mack Allen Davis, youth pastor at at Lakeside Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL
- pleaded guilty in 2014 to six charges of sexually abusing minors
 
Russel W. Davis, 70, Methodist pastor, Massachusetts
- charged with multiple counts of child rape.


Steve Dahl, pastor, Calvary Gospel Church
- groomed an raped an 11 year old, who was then labelled a "hussy", then molested his wife's 15 year old younger sister. 

Richard DeVall, missionary, North Love Baptist Church
- admitted to rape, still on the mission field 

Daniel Byron DeVries, 48, Deacon & Sunday School teacher, Unity Reformed Church, Michigan
- charged with 6 felony counts of aggravated possesiion of CSAM

Josh Duggar, Institute of Basic Life Principles & Family Research Council - '19 Children and Counting' reality TV show
- molested sisters, Ashley Madison scandal (abused prostitutes) arrested for child pornography. 
See Shiny Happy People

Walter Dildy, SBC/IMB (International Missions Board)
- molested children at missionary boarding school

Arnold DiBlasi, youth director, Holy Eucharist Parish, Cherry Hill NJ
- arrested for child pornography

- sentenced for production of child pornography and molestation of victims under the age of 12.
 
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Gary Joe Eaches, pastor, Scranton
- molested a teenage girl who passed out after he gave her alcohol, sentenced to 18 to 48 months in state prison.  
 
- brothers convicted of child porn and sexually exploiting girls in the youth group of a Texas Baptist church
 
Jeffery Dale Eddie, children's minister, Highland Park Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, AL
- pleaded guilty in 2014 to child sex abuse and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Stephen Lee Edmonds, deacon, First Baptist Church, FL
pleaded guilty to molesting three boys, ages 14 and 15.

Alexander Edwards, youth pastor, Southern Baptist Church, TX
- accused of molesting 2 children in 2016; re-arrested for molesting an 11 year old boy in 2016. 

Jonathan Ryan Ensey, 37, worship leader of Living Way Church, Conroe, TX
- sentenced to 8 years prison for molesting a child who attended his church. 
"Throughout the trial, members of the Living Way congregation packed the courtroom in an apparent show of support for the Defendant."

Joseph Eyer, Sunday School teacher and bus driver, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Merrillville
- charged with child molestation

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Faith Baptist Church, Danville, Illinois, 
- alleged cover up of a case concerning a “church staff member” who molested plaintiff Sally George when she was 17.
 
Jordan Fautz, Catholic school teacher, Kentucky
- arrested for CSAM by editing students' faces from a yearbook onto child sexual abuse images.

Jacob Feldt, Police chaplain, Jamestown, NY
- charged with rape, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child

Barry Fike, pastor & Christian school teacher, California (& supporter of Sound of Freedom)
- arrested for CSAM & solicitation of a minor.

Chad Foster, youth pastor, Second Baptist Church, Houston
pleaded guilty to raping one teenager and soliciting another for sex

- posted lewd photos; sued for ignoring Covid public health requirements; created a toxic & fear-based workplace involving discussing graphic details of his sex life. Fostered an environment conducive to rape culture.

Jeff Forrest, child daycare worker at Pioneer Drive Baptist Church, Abilene, TX

- charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child
 
- charged with three felony counts of child molestation involving a girl under the age of 18.
 
Maurice Frazier, 51, youth pastor, Indianapolis
- used a church office to lure & abuse 14 year old girl, plus CSAM.
 
Erick Odir Vidal Fuentes, 39, pastor of Iglesia Pentecostal El Fin Viene Church, Montgomery, AL
- convicted of sexually assaulting a member of his church. 
 
- arrested on charges of repeatedly raping a teenage girl

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Steve Gaines, pastor of megachurch Bellevue Baptist Church, Cordova, Tennessee; & former president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).
- accused of being a part of sex abuse cover up in the SBS
 
Fred Gammon, pastor, Oklahoma
- facing trial for sexual abuse of a child in his church & asking to sniff her underwear.
 
Benjamin Garlick, evangelist & guest pastor, Tennessee
- arrested for the rape of a child under the age of 13.
 
Shaantal Garlick, wife of Benjamin
- arrested for facilitating child rape & child endangerment. 

Cory Gaylor, 52, church deacon & school teacher, Idaho
- sentenced to 60 years prison for grooming & sexually abusing a child in his classroom.

Gabe Geringer, youth pastor, Colorado
- sentenced to 60 days in jail for raping a 14 year old girl in his church.

Shawn Gooden, LDS church bishop & Scout leader, Pennsylvania
- pled guilty to raping two girls under 14.

Daniel James Green, 63, Sunday school teacher, TX
- sentenced to life in prison for urging a 13 year old to shower with him & give him a "peep show". Posted homophobic diatribes.

Ruben Garcia, Pastor, SBC, Alabama
- prosecuted for sexual assault of a teenage girl

Joaquin Garcia, Apostle, La Luz Del Mundo, California
- charged with rape and child pornography

charged with sexual abuse of a minor
 
Tommy Gilmore, pastor, First Baptist Church of Farmers Branch FL
 
Darrell Gilyard, pastor, Victory Baptist Church 
- multiple allegations of rape, molestation and sexual misconduct

Rodger Githens, 44, seminary professor, CA
- arrested for trying to arrange to rape a 7 year old child

Brian “Doug” Goodrich - intern, Providence Baptist Church
 
- sentenced to 13 years in prison for statutory sex offenses, indecent liberties and first-degree sex exploitation

- charged with rape and sexual harassment young girls

Dr. Bob Gray, pastor, Trinity Christian Academy  
arrested on charges of sexually abusing children
 
- charged with child molestation and rape of his daughter 
 
Jason Greathouse, youth pastor, Enterprise, Alabama
- charged with raping a 14-year old student 
 
Charles Griffen, pastor, Fountain Valley Baptist Church in Fountain, Colorado, 
- allegedly molested plaintiff Candence Finch when she was 13 to 18 years old.
 
David Griffith, church vacation Bible school volunteer & teacher, First Presbyterian Church of Strasburg, Pennsylvania
- charged with 14 offenses related to sexually abusing children
 
Cameron Giovanelli, Pastor, Maryland. 
- charged with sexual abuse of a minor 
 
Jaime Gonzalez, youth group leader, Our Lady Guadalupe Shrine in Riverside, CA
- arrested for allegedly sexually abusing young girls.

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Daniel Harris, 44, evangelical pastor, Olive Branch Christian Church, Mississippi
- sentenced to 18 years in prison for raping multiple children at his church and non-profit, "the Kaimen Center".
 
Bob Hartley, "prophet" with ties to Mike Bickle, who took no action when allegations surfaced.
- banned from International House of Prayer Kansas City due to allegations of sexual misconduct

Mark Hatcher, pastor, Pentecostal Church, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Penn.
- found guilty of 10 counts of rape and sexual assault of 3 minors
 
Cory Herthel, pastor, Wisconsin
- pled guilty to CSAM from a child he met on a missions trip. 

Puredi Hillary, pastor, Shiloh Tabernacle Church, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
- arrested following a report of sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl.

David Hollowell, 52, pastor, Indiana
- arrested for the rape of a 13 year old girl & attempted murder of her step-father who rushed in to try to save her.

Samuel James Hugg, 28, security guard at Eden Christian Academy
- pled guilty to child enticement.

Ted Haggard, pastor, New Life Church, Colorado & head of National Association of Evangelicals
- lobbied against same-sex marriage, paid for sex with male escorts. Defended by James Dobson and Mark Driscoll.

Robert Allan Hale, Pilgrim’s Wilderness  
- indicted on 30 felony counts, including 10 counts of sexual assault, one count of kidnapping, eight counts of incest, eight counts of coercion, and three counts of assault against the members of his family.
 
Joshua Henley, youth pastor, Washington Avenue Church of Christ, Indiana
- indicted for using three minors, ages 12 to 16, to create sexual abuse material and for transporting a minor interstate to engage in criminal sexual activity
 
Nicholas Henshaw, 35, Youth Pastor, Calvalry Chapel, Fort Collins, CO
- charged with molesting an 8 year old, later committed suicide.
 
Cory Herthel, 40, pastor, Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Green Bay, WI
- sentenced to 15 years prison for CSAM involving a child he met on a mission trip to Ecuador

 
- sentenced to prison for molesting a 10-year-old.

John Wayne Hinton, Somerset Church of Christ
- sentenced to 60 years for molesting at least three little girls 

Mike Hintz, 35, pastor of First Assembly of God, Iowa
- charged with & pled guilty to sexual exploitation of a child

- allegations of child sex abuse and physical abuse involving at least six members
 
Trent Brandon Holbert, pastor,The Ridge Church in Black Mountain, N.C 
- charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, indecent liberties with a child and two counts of felony statutory sex offense with a child under 15
 
Keith Holt, pastor, House of Prayer Church in Blackwell, Oklahoma 
 - arrested for kidnapping and child abuse 
 
James Hoover, youth director, Airline Baptist Church in Bossier City, Louisiana, 
- along with minister of music Roger Merritt, allegedly molested plaintiff Kellie Mims when she was 14 to 18 years old.

Terry Hornbuckle, pastor, Agape Christian Fellowship
convicted of raping members of his congregation.

Frank Houston, national president of the Assemblies of God in Australia  
- abused as many as nine boys across Australia and New Zealand between 1965 and 1977. 

Dylan Houser, New Life Christian Church & World Outreach
 
Johnny Hunt, SBC president, sexually assaulted another pastor’s wife in 2010
 
Gerald "Jerry" Ray Hutcheson, pastor, Red Oak Baptist Church, Baker AL
- convicted in 2007 of sexual abuse in Covington County. Registered sex offender
 
Joseph T. Hutchins, state trooper, commissioned by Jim Bob Duggar to give a "stern talking to" his son Josh Duggar, an incestuous child molester who was arrested on child pornography charges
currently serving 56 years in an Arkansas prison on child pornography charges

- charged with rape of a teenage girl 
 
Jack Hyles, pastor, First Baptist of Hammond, Indiana
- committed adultery with secretary; covered up sexual assault in the IFB 
- defended son David Hyles and son in law Jack Schapp
 
"More than a dozen men with connections to the IFB First Baptist church - including several preaching in churches across the country - were implicated in a series of lawsuits and arrests involving rape, sexual molestation and the abuse of children." 
- Kristin Kobes Du Mez, 'Jesus & John Wayne'.

"Investigations revealed 'a deeply embedded culture of misogyny and sexual and physical abuse' at First Baptist."
 
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Aaron Ivey, head of worship, pastor & author, married to "influencer" Jami Ivey, SBC Austin Stone Community Church, TX
- fired after "explicit ongoing text messages with several adult males and minors" were discovered; accused of sexual exploitation.
 
Kelly Garrett Ivey, member of Rock Springs Church
- charged with cruelty & child sex trafficking 
 
- 412 allegations of  sexual misconduct linked to 187 IFB churches and affiliated institutions.
 
"The institutional culture of the IFB ... celebrated patriarchal authority, a culture that dictated the values and directed the actions of "good people" in ways that could displace compassion and justice with blind obedience to authority." 
- Kristin Kobes Du Mez, 'Jesus and John Wayne'
 
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Allan Kyle Jones, 48, pastor, Lifeway Community Church, Loxley, Alabama
- charged with 4 counts of CSAM 

Dirk P Jackson, Pastor, First Baptist Church in Port Orchard, WA
- sentenced to 41 months in prison in 2011 after pleading guilty to two counts of indecent liberties with a child.
 
Nicholas Jackson, 39, elder & teacher, New Whiteland Church, Indiana
- arrested for CSAM & attempting to meet up with a 15 year old girl with sexual intent


Daniel Stephen Johnson, missionary, Coos Bay, Oregon
- sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing children at orphanage in Cambodia 
 
William A. Jones, president, Kentucky’s Georgetown College 
- fired following allegations of sexual assault 
 
Amanda Buchanan Justice, youth pastor, New Life Family Worship Center, King’s Mountain, NC - -   arrested for the sexual assault of a minor.
 
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Dakota Kennemer, 31, youth pastor, Idaho
- arrested for grooming & raping a 16 year old at his church & Christian school.
 
Jason Kyle Kerby, Christian musician & singer, Texas
- arrested for CSAM & sexual abuse of a minor over years.

Kendal Kippen, youth pastor, Washington
- sentenced to 14 months for the rape of a child

Ferrell Kissiar, pastor, Illinois
- sentenced to 30 years prison for child sex trafficking.

Donn Ketcham, missionary, Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE)
- accused of sexual abuse of 18 children 

Ronnie Allen Killingsworth, 78, pastor of Rephidim Church, Wichita Falls
- indicted for the rape of 3 children over the course of 11 years.

Gene Kingsley, missionary, SBC/IMB
 
Paul Kingsbury, pastor, North Love Baptist Church
resigned in the wake of a lawsuit claiming a church employee sexually abused a teenage girl
 
Jared Kobernat, Baptist school teacher, Nebraska
- sentenced to 4 years prison for stalking young girls on the internet. 27,000 photographs of girls were found on his cell phone.
 
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Dennis Laferty, 37, pastor, Ohio
- sentenced to 2 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping multiple children in his church 

Kenneth Lynn Lamons, 37, pastor of Mt Pleasant Independent Baptist Church, Greene County, TN
- charged with rape, battery and continuous sexual abuse of a child.
 
Robert Lazzell, 48, Christian school principal & church deacon at Illinois First Baptist Church
- sentenced to 12 years in prison for grooming & raping a 13 year old at the church school. 

Kevin Lentz, 49, youth pastor & Christian school teacher, Kentucky
- arrested on 17 charges of sex crimes against children
 
Lenny Luck, 65, Spokane.
- arrested for molesting 4 year old boy in church bathroom. 

Andy Landrum, child and youth minister, The Village Church Texas
- 'confessed' to inappropriate sexual contact with a child and tried to videotape children
 
Bobby Leonard, pastor, NC
- said in a sermon that girls wearing shorts "like that" deserve to be raped and that if he were on the jury, (referring to the hypothetical rapist), "he's going to go free".
 
Adam Jeremy Lewis, youth pastor, Rock Mountain Lakes Baptist Church
- possession of CSAM.

Rodney Locklear, evangelical pastor, Ruckerville, Virginia
- arrested for abducting and raping a child.
 
John Longaker - plead guilty in 1998 to fondling and oral sex with a ninth-grader while a teacher at Faith Baptist Academy in Sellersville, Pennsylvania.
 
Jose Andres Lopez, 70, pastor, CA
- sentenced to life in prison for 18 felony sexual assault charges for sexually abusing two girls from 1991 until 2020.
 
John Lowe, Pastor, New Life Christian Church in Warsaw, IN
Admitted to "adultery", omitting to mention that the victim was a 16 year old he groomed, or that his son also sexually assaulted a girl in their congregation. 

Jeremiah Donald Lowe, son of John Lowe, alleged to have molested a young girl he was baby-sitting.


Samuel Lee Lyte, youth minister, Mt. Bethel Church, Texas
- arrested  on several child sex abuse charges 
 
Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
- sued by 12 former students and employees for creating an unsafe environment and enabling on-campus rapes.

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James MacDonald, senior pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel  
- alleged sexual misconduct
 
C.J. Mahaney, president of Sovereign Grace Ministries. Endorsed by John Piper and Al Mohler, "Together for the Gospel".
- 2012 class action suit filed against him for "cultivating and environment conducive to and protective of physical and sexual abuse of children."

"The combination of patriarchal gender roles, purity culture and authoritarian clergy that characterizes Sovereign Grace's teachings on parenting, marriage and sexuality created an environment where women and children - especially girls - were uniquely vulnerable to abuse. Submission theology protects the privileges of the powerful" 
- T. F. Charlton, former member of SGM. 
Quoted in 'Jesus and John Wayne" by Kristin Kobes Du Mez.

"The allegations against Mahaney and his ministry never made it to trial due to the stature of limitations ..."
 
"Is complementarianism just camouflage for abusive males and permission for the abuse and mistreatment of women?" 
- Al Mohler
 
Fred Malone, FoundersMinistries
 
Ian Maphet, 39, worship leader, Calumet Street Christian Church, Illinois
- charged with 4 counts of CSAM
 
Virgil L. Marsh, 71, pastor, Miracle Chapel, Independence, MO
- charged with 2 counts of 1st degree child molestation & sodomy
 
Milton O. Martin, 56, pastor, Pentecostal Church of Chalmette, Louisiana
- indicted for rape of a young girl in his church. 
 
Clint Massie, 48, church member, Duluth, Minnesota
- arrested for raping girls in his church, then re-arrested for further child rape charges 

- charged with the sexual molestation of more than 30 boys in Haiti.

Leslie Mason, pastor, Olney Southern Baptist Church
- registered sex offender, received a seven-year prison sentence, then was returned to the pulpit at a series of Baptist churches. 
 
William McElrath, missionary, SBC/IMB
- charged with child sexual abuse

 

James Vernon McNeal, children's minister, Bethlehem Baptist Church, Hazel Green, AL
- charged in 2017 with sexual abuse of a child under 12.
 
John McCall, 51, worship leader at Grace River Community Church, Decatur, AL
- charged with electronic solicitation of a child & failing to register as a sex offender.

David McConkie, church leader & attorney, Colorado
- arrested for the rape of a child.
 
Tivo McCrary, Pastor, Cornerstone Church, Marion, Illinois
- fired from church, investigated for sexually inappopriate behaviour towards teens in the church.
 
Daniel McFeters, 30, Christian youth center volunteer "coach", Michigan
- arrested for the sexual assault of a minor.

Calvin McGee, LDS missionary, Idaho
- charged with CSAM & rape of a minor aged 11.
 
Timothy Burton McGee, 56, member of Impact Church, Arizona
- found guilty of 10 counts of sexual exploitation o a minor, sentenced to 17 years prison for each count.
 
Tyler Dean Melton, 26, teacher, Southlake Christian Academy, North Carolina
- arrested for raping a student
 
Daniel Merrick, 64, pastor, TV evangelist & Trump supporter
- arrested on 800 counts of CSAM & 570 counts of indecent contact with a minor.
 
Roger Merritt, Minister of Music, Airline Baptist Church in Bossier City, Louisiana, 
- along with Assistant Pastor & Youth Director James Hoover, allegedly molested plaintiff Kellie Mims when she was 14 to 18 years old.
 
Ruven Meulenberg, youth pastor, Saddleback Church, CA
- charged with molesting 4 minor teenage boys

 
Isaiah Mikkelson, 22, youth pastor, Hope Lutheran Church in Quincy, Illinois
- pled guilty to 2 counts of sexually abusing children in his church
 
Jarod Mills, 36, pastor, Ohio
- sentenced to 6 months in prison for child sex trafficking
 
Aaron Mirtsching, youth pastor & kindergarten teacher, North Carolina
- arrested for CSAM, then re-arrested for more child sex crimes
 
Miracle Meadows Christian boarding school
- investigation revaled cover-up of torture, rape & vicious beatings of students 
 
Jason Moore, missionary, Florida
- sentenced to 60 years prison for the rape of a child in Fiji. 

Marvin Mosley, pastor, Pennsylvania
- charged with and admitted to raping 3 children
 
Alan Murphy, pastor, Texas
- raped a 14 year old child. Has evaded prison on a plea deal.

Malo Victor Monteiro, youth pastor, Faith Baptist Church in Wildomar CA
- sentenced to 5 years prison after pleading guilty to four counts of lewd acts on a child of 14-15 years; two counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object and one count of attempted copulation of a minor. 
 
Roy Moore, Republican, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama; friend of James Dobson who endorsed him; contributed to Vision Forum.
- multiple allegations of molesting an underage girl & sexual harassment of teenage girls. 

"Christian, if you cannot say, definitively, no matter what, that adults creeping on teenage girls is wrong, do not tell me how you stand against moral relativism" 
- Russell Moore (no relation to Roy Moore).

Daniel J. Moore, pastor, New Whiteland Baptist Church, Indiana
- sentenced to ten years for sexual abuse of a teenage member of his church 
 
Steve Morgan, President of "The Network"
-  concealed that he was charged with aggravated criminal sodomy against a 15 year old male minor in November 1986.

Jacob D. Mygatt, youth pastor, Christian Reformed Church
- charged with child enticement and sexual assault

arrested on charges of custodial child abuse and sex offenses against multiple victims from 1995-2001. Convicted and serving a 15-year sentence.
 
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Timothy Nall, Baptist pastor, TX
- arrested for child sex crimes.

Gregory Norton, youth pastor, Westside Baptist Church
- charged with 8 counts of sexual battery. & molesting multiple children in his church.
 
Remington Nystrom, Christian camp counselor, Wisconsin
- sentenced to 7 years in prison for raping a 10 year old girl at camp. 


Benjamin William Nelson, pastor, Peoria Baptist Church, TX
- sentenced to twenty years in prison for sexual abuse of a thirteen year old girl.
 
Pete Newman, Director, Kanakuk Kamps
- molested dozens of boys over years; promoted himself as an expert of sexual purity; endorsed by Joe White, president of Kanakuk Kamps 

David Nims, youth director, Calvary Baptist Church, Pensacola FL
- arrested on video voyeurism charges, three times.
 
Frank Noe, pastor, Bennett’s Fork Baptist Church, Middlesboro, Ky
- arrested and charged with five counts of rape

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Jacob Oldham, director or Christian youth sports ministry, "Full Count Ministries", Henderson, TN
- charged with 2 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.

Michael Wayne O'Guin, minister, The Church at Wichita Creek in Flower Mound, TX
- indicted for sexual misconduct involving a 14-year-old girl 
  
Austin O'Neal, Pastor, Church of the City, Euless, TX

- sentenced to 40 years prison for the repeated rape of his two daughters, one of whom was under 11 years old when the abuse began. The women said their father molested them each more than 100 times.

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Ivan Peden, pastor, North Carolina
- arrested for peeping at a child in a bathroom stall & trying to bust in on her. 

Zachary Luke Petree, 25, pastor of The Field church, Huntington, Indiana
- pled guilty to CSAM & sentenced to 2.5 years

Robert Price, pastor, North Carolina
- a convicted sex offender, now arrested for the rape of 3 more children.

-  endorsed SBC pastor Darrell Gilyard despite multiple rape allegations.
- supported Paul Pressler in covering up Pressler's molestation of boys.

Patrick Henry College - founded by Michael Farris, for "home-schooled Christian culture warriors"
- rape apologism; required all students to attend a lecture on "witch hunts" waged against men and "seductresses" luring men into "honeytraps".

Travis Payne, pastor, South Texarkana Baptist Church, Arkansas
- sentenced to five years for molestation of 3-year-old girl 

Joshua R. Pearson, 23, assistant youth pastor, Open Gate Church of God Hilliard, Columbus, OH
- indicted for the rape of girls as young as 7 who attended his church.
 
Ivan High-McDonald Peden, 71, pastor of three various churches
- pled guilty to indecent exposure & sexual battery, sentence suspended. No jail time. He peeped at a child through the bathroom door and tried to get into the stall while the child kept the door shut.
 
Austin Perkins, youth pastor, Grace Fellowship Baptist Church, Floyd County, Georgia
- one of seven men caught in CSAM sting. Facing 40 years prison.

- charged with sexual battery, fraud and sexual exploitation

- charged with 54 counts of sexual indecency with a child
 
Nathaniel Pineda, 35, teacher at Dream City Christian School, Phoenix
- arrested for sexually abusing a 15 year old girl.
 
Alan Placa, priest, friend & fraternity brother of Rudy Giuliani
- accused of sexually abusing adolescent and teenaged boys
 
Kyle Timothy Poff, 36, youth pastor, TX
- charged with CSAM

Paul Pressler, former judge, Southern Baptist Convention
- charged with molesting boys; allegations dating back to the 1970s.
- played a leading role in wresting control of the Southern Baptist Convention from moderates in 1979.
 
Bobby Price, associate pastor, Kingsway Church, Concord 
- pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse.

Edward Earl Prince, Pastor, Mississippi
 
Christopher M. Pruit, 35, pastor of a small house church, Beaverton Oregon.
- jailed for sexual abuse for molesting a girl under fourteen and another girl under eighteen.

- sentenced to 50 years for sex crimes against children.
 
- charged with drugging and sexual assaulting of a child.
 
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Stephen David Rambler, pastor of Church on the Rock, Wrightsville
- pled guilty to porn charges and rape of a 15 year old boy.
 
Matthew Reiber, senior pastor, New Life Christian Church, Chickasha, Oklahoma
- charged with three counts of lewd or indecent acts with a 7-year-old girl.
 
Matthew Lee Richards, 41, children's pastor, Crossroads Christian Church, Shawnee 
- charged with murder & arson.
 
Warren Riley, 53, Christian school teacher, North Carolina 
- sentenced to 13 months prison for molesting two 11 year old students.

David Robinson, 34, youth pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Plant City, Hillsborough County
- charged with 9 counts of CSAM.
 
Kyle Robinson, associate pastor, First Baptist Church of Indialantic, Florida
- charged with felony lewd molestation of a victim under 16.

Nathan Rogers, youth pastor, New York
- pled guilty to CSAM.
 
Terry Rudisill, Bapist pastor, North Carolina
- out on bond after raping an 11 year old and 15 year old, arrested again for more child sex crimes. 
 
Tom Randall, Christ Community Chapel
 
David Richards, Pastor, My Fathers House Church of God, Lenoir City, Tennessee - convicted of repeatedly raping his 14 year old adopted daughter over a period of four years

convicted of possessing child pornography

Chris Rice, Musician, Tates Creek Presbyterian Church

David Alan Rowan, pastor, Faith Baptist Church, Milton, Florida

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Daniel Savala
- Assemblies of God leaders criticized for allowing sex offender Daniel Savala access to students at Chi Alpha Campus Minstries, TX
 
Brandon Saylor, Living Word Church, Midland, Michigan
- arrested for sexual abuse of 3 children under 13 years.
 
Tyler Selby, worship leader, Mississippi Baptist church
- arrested for producing a video of CSAM of him in a bathtub wit a child, committing sex acts. 
 
Rick Sentell, senior pastor, Cornerstone Church of God, Cleveland, Tenn.
- found with more than 100 CSAM images, indicted by grand jury

Tye Stiger, church volunteer, Michigan
- fled to The Philippines to avoid prosecution on dozens of child sex abuse charges; sentenced to 50 years in prison.

Bob Stine, pastor & president of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention
- arrested for molesting a 10 year old at a church day camp

Michael Sperou, pastor,  North Clackamas Bible Community, Portland, Oregon.
- sexually abused seven girls whose families attended his church, sentenced to 13 years in prison. 

 
- Since 1998, around 380 perpetrators within the SBC left a trail of more than 700 victims.
- 'Removed from fellowship' churches that hired female pastors, but failed to disciplines churches that hired known sex offenders. 

Richard A. Santa Maria, Homestead Heritage 
- sentenced to 35 years for sexual abuse of an 8 year old girl

- charged with raping a 17 year old girl
 
Jack Schaap , pastor, First Baptist, IFB
- son-in-law of Jack Hyles; pleaded guilty in 2012 to crossing state lines to have sex with a sixteen year old girl he was counselling.

Michael D. Schneider, worship director of John’s Lutheran Church, Bloomington 
-  charged with 131 counts of child pornography possession and six counts of criminal sexual assault of a minor victim between 13 and 17 years old. 
 
Richard Scott Shaw, 69, youth pastor & worship leader, Under Command Ministries, Wyoming
- arrested for sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 12 in Florida.
 
- charged with multiple counts of child sex trafficking
 
Paxton Singer, youth pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel, Aurora, Chicago
- charged with grooming a minor 

Steven W. Smith, senior pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church, Little Rock, Arkansas
- resigned after alleged mishandling of sexual abuse by former church employees; and for "maliciously and systematically" covering up sexual abuse.
 
Gary Ladell Smitherman, children's and youth minister, Friendship Baptist Church, Clanton, AL
- found guilty in 2018 of sexually abusing a child under 12
 
William Staggs, 49, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church, Florence, Alabama
- arrested for sexually assaulting and exposing himself indecently to a woman 

Robert Stahn, 64, LDS church member & director of Operation Shield
- pled guilty to felony sexual abuse of a vulnerable non-verbal adult

Hezekiah Stallworth, Pastor, Texas
 
Michael David Starnes Jr., 37, youth pastor, Lighthouse Church
- charged with 2 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor & CSAM. He "does have the support of his church".
January 2024

Eddie Struble, SBC

Stephen Sitler, Christ Church

Larry Gene Singleton, Pastor, Mississipi
 
Natalie Sorrells, youth volunteer at megachurch Lakepointe Church, Dallas, TX
- charged with 2 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child & indecency.

Carlyle Sparrow, administrator, Gloryland Nazarene Church, Carroll, Ohio

- charged with sexual assault of a minor 

R.C. Sproul Jr., Legonier Ministries
 
 
repeatedly raped and impregnated their 13-year-old sister, sentenced to writing a letter of apology

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Samuel Taylor, 52, music teacher & minister at several churches in Rankin County, Mississippi
- convicted of one count of sexual battery & gratification of lust & the rape of an 11 year old autistic child.

Eric Tuininga, pastor & missionary, Milledgeville, Georgia
- sentenced to serve 120 months in prison for sexually abusing a girl in his care in Uganda.
 
-  sentenced to 25 years in prison for manufacturing child pornography.

Tullian Tchividjian, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church

Anthony Lynn Thibodeaux, Pastor, Texas

George Thomas Wade Jr, International Missions Board  

Caleb Toney, 27, youth pastor, Iowa
- sentenced to 2 years probation for providing a minor with alcohol & sexually assaulting them.
 
 
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- pleased guilty to sexual battery, assault, and two counts of attempted rape
 
Glen Uselmann, Sunday School teacher, Calvary Gospel Church, Madison, WI
- charged with sexual assault of a child under the age of 13.  
 
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Roger VanRaden, 49, youth pastor, Faith Baptist Church, Champaign, Illinois.
-  sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual assault of a teenager.
 
 
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Thomas Wall, pastor of  Pentecostal Fellowship  & administrator at Fellowship Christian Academy, Lancaster, Kentucky
- sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to one count of 1sr degree sexual abuse. 12 other charges were dismissed.

David Lloyd Walther, pastor, Faith Baptist Church, Round Rock
- sentenced to 70 months in prison for CSAM
 
Jordan Webb, missionary, Harvest Baptist Church Fort Dodge, Iowa.
jailed for 25 years for sexually abusing a 4-year-old who tested positive for gonorrhea.
 
Nicholas Webb, 21, son of Plain Landmark Missionary Baptist Church pastor Steven Webb
- charged with rape & sexual battery of a child under 14. 
 
Matthew Wallace, 37, member of Elwood Central Wesleyan Church, Indiana
- sentenced to 30 years for child molestation & raping the child in the church basement.
 

Kenneth Eugene Ward, Pastor, Dallas TX
 
David Walker, youth pastor, The Dwelling Place Family Worship Center, North Olmsted, Cleveland Ohio
- sexually abused a 14 year old girl


Jamin C. Wight, associate of Doug Wilson, Christ Church

Toby Willis, The Willis Clan

 
Joe White, president of Kanakuk Kamps; speaker at Promise Keepers
- enabled employee and camp director, Pete Newman, to molest dozens of boys at this Christian camp. 

James R. Williams, 50, Ellsworth

- arrested & charged with molesting a 12 year old girl

Jeffrey Williams, 38, youth pastor, Fountain Salvation Army, Colorado

- found guilty of grooming and sexually exploiting a child in his youth group

Doug Wilson  

- defended Doug Phillips and Mark Driscoll; victim blamer; married convicted pedophile Steven Sitler to a young woman in his congregation. 

- defended in court Jamin Wight, a man enrolled in Wilson's ministerial training programme, who groomed and molested a 14 year old home-schooled girl in Wilson's congregation. Depicted by Wilson as a "homeschool love affair."

Steven P. Woyen, pastor, First Lutheran Church of Strasburg, New Philadelphia

- sentenced to four years in prison for three counts of sexual battery involving a teen

Matthew Wyatt, 30, guest preacher at Southside Baptist Church, North Carolina

- charged with sexual abuse of a child & rape.

Robert Wyatt, pastor, Agape Bible Church, affiliated with The Gospel Coalition

- repeatedly molested a 12 year old girl in his church.

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David Zandstra, pastor, Pennsylvania
- arrested for the kidnapping & murder, in 1975, of an 8 year old girl on her way to Sunday School.
 
Luverne Zacharias, youth pastor and Christian school principal, Minnesota
- arrested for sexually assaulting multiple girls at his church and school.

Ravi Zacharias, RZIM
- sexually abused numerous women.

Ravi Zacharias, Influential Evangelist, Is Accused of Sexual Abuse in Scathing Report


I believe that the unbalanced doctrines of male supremacy (or "headship") and unilateral female submission or subordination ("chain of command" or "biblical gender roles"), that are widely taught in the conservative circles of American fundamentalism, promote unhealthy and dysfunctional dynamics and increase the likelihood of domestic violence and sexual abuse, exploitation and assault.

These are not the guys to turn to, to save you from the 'evil pedophiles' and your authoritarian governments. You haven't seen "authoritarian" until you've seen their extrapolation of fundamentalist patriarchy in action. 

Consider the above list of names. It's constantly growing.

What do these all have in common?

- They are individuals or organizations that believe in the headship of men and the subordination of women. They believe that leadership in the family and church is reserved for men.

- They have been charged with sexual offenses and/or have been involved in enabling and covering up for perpetrators of sexual offenses.

Don't rely on my links. Google any of the listed names for yourself. Look especially for fact-based, non-partisan local news articles and actual court documents. 
 
Note: this is not a list of men who may have "stumbled" sexually or committed adultery with other consenting adults. While that behaviour is not considered ideally moral by most Christian churches, we all know that people are human and they stuff up. That
is not what this is about. These men are not merely flawed humans who committed some indiscretion and had the misfortune to be prominent when they did.
 
These men are predators, who exploited the power awarded to them by Christian male headship doctrine, to harm the defenceless, and the innocent, who did NOT CONSENT.
 
Sexual immorality is not the same as sexual ABUSE. 

"The 2000s saw a spate of sex scandals topple evangelical leaders. In many cases, the abuse or misconduct stretched back years, even decades. Many of the men implicated in the abuse, or in covering up cases of abuse, were the same men who had been preaching militant masculinity, patriarchal authority, and female purity and submission." 

- Kristin Kobes Du Mez, 'Jesus & John Wayne'.

Databases of perpetrators in the evangelical church:

STOP BAPTIST PREDATORS

PREACHER BOYS

Preacher Boys is a documentary shedding light on decades of physical, mental, and sexual abuse within the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement.

Preacher Boys Podcast Database of Abusers

Baptist Accountability database of abusers 

The Roys Report - Reporting the Truth. Restoring the Church.

Floodlit - data base of Mormon sexual abuse cases

Not In Our Church - church abuse statistics

Bishop Accountability - documenting the abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church

Databases of perpetrators in the Republican party:

Republican Sexual Predators 

 - exposing the corruption of the "family values" party.

This is Part 1 of 41:

Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 1

- By Kristen Browde
This data analysis site illustrates some interesting points of note:
- 84.6% of offenders have Republican party affiliation.
- 5.1% of offenders have Democrat party affiliation
- 80% of the top ten highest number of offenders per capita are Republican states. South Dakota is the worst.
- 100% of the top ten lowest number of offenders per capital are Democrat/Swing states. Massachusetts is the best.
 
 
 

List of Republican Predators

A Comprehensive List of Republicans Arrested for Pedophile Charges

Resources :

Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment 

Boz Law - Sexual Abuse Attorney for Victims. (Grandson of Billy Graham). 

The Misfit Amish LLC

"Amish children and adults will have resources and education to combat crimes in their communities. We  bridge the gaps between English and Amish culture"

You can find information here on how to report child sexual abuse (applicable to everyone, not only Anabaptists).

Mary Byler is an absolute power house. She is an advocate for ALL victim survivors of sexual abuse. This is her book.

Reflections and Memories of An Amish Misfit: "My therapist says that’s not true, but I digress"

Articles & Commentary

Eyes to See and Ears to Hear Women

Sexual Assault as a Crisis of Evangelical Theology

In Eyes to See and Ears to Hear Women, Christian scholars examine evangelical Christianity’s engagement with women, gender, sexuality, and abuse. In the #MeToo era, no one can claim ignorance about the epidemic of abuse and violence against women. For too long, church leaders have failed to see the abuse in the church and failed to hear the women who cry out for justice. In Eyes to See and Ears to Hear Women, Christian scholars examine evangelical Christianity’s engagement with women, gender, sexuality, and abuse. They reveal startling connections between popular teachings on gender and the abuse crisis that has plagued society for centuries.

 

"In the end, (evangelical leaders like) Doug Wilson, John Piper, Mark Driscoll, James Dobson, Doug Phillips and John Eldredge all preached a mutually reinforcing vision of Christian masculinity - of patriarchy and submission, sex and power. It was a vision that promised protection for women but left women without defense, one that worshiped power and turned a blind eye to justice, and one that transformed the Jesus of the Gospels into an image of their own making." - Kristin Kobes Du Mez, 'Jesus and John Wayne'.


The sudden departure of Russell Moore is forcing an overdue conversation about the crises of American Christendom.

Russell Moore's resignation letter: 

"I am trying to say this as clearly as I can to you, brothers and sisters: These are the tactics that have been used to create a culture where countless children have been torn to shreds, where women have been raped and then “broken down.”"

"When God called me to himself in Jesus, and when he called me to serve him in ministry, he called me to stand for the truth, to point the way to the kingdom, to die to self, and to carry the cross. He did not call me to provide cover for racial bigotry and child molestation. I will not do that." 

The Woman Taking on Sex Abuse in the Church 

"Rachael Denhollander is an attorney and the author of What Is a Girl Worth? who focuses her efforts on advocating for survivors of sexual abuse in churches and Christian organizations. She’s been enlisted to consult RZIM on the necessary steps to address its legacy of sexual abuse and that’s just one part of her vision.Ultimately, Denhollander hopes to be part of building a new world in which the Church is no longer at best apologizing to and at worst ignoring victims of assault, but is instead their fiercest champion." 

Reporting on the SBC report on systemic sexual abuse in the church, released in May 2022:

The evangelical world is reeling from the recent (May 2022) release of the third-party investigation into the handling of abuse by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee.

A response to SBC abuse investigation  by Kristin Du Mez