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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeader of SoBaptConvention has been charged with decades-long molestation of young man!!
[Source with links at Wednesday post at blog 'thewartburgwatch.com]
Charges have been filed in Houston against Paul Pressler, leader of the conservative take-over of the So Baptist Convention.
Pressler and Paige Patterson, now president of SoWestBaptSeminary in Dallas, believed the SBC was becoming 'liberal!!' So they agreed in secret to act. The 1960s take-over, known as the Conservative Resurgence, led to massive firings at SBC seminaries, in SBC churches, and on the mission field. All women seminary faculty were fired. New hires signed loyalty oaths. The denomination that claimed 'no creed but the Bible' now has what serves as one.
Have heard that people who were no longer acceptable, had their books dumped from the seminaries' libraries. (Friend said this happened to her father's works. He was a scholar and long serving missionary.)
Blog links to court filing, which details the take-over.
Pressler's wife, Patterson and his wife, First Bapt Church of Houston, and SoWestBaptSeminary have also been charged.
Years of molestation are detailed in document. Blog states it was widely known for years in Houston in-group church circles that there was something weird about Pressler - naked spa invites, etc.
The seminary has stained glass windows in its chapel of the leaders of the Resurgence, including Pressler and wife, Patterson and wife.
Glorfindel
(9,719 posts)"The seminary has stained glass windows in its chapel of the leaders of the Resurgence, including Pressler and wife, Patterson and wife."
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)The 2 women running 'thewartburgwatch.com' have been following the 2 men for some time. The women, in NC, were members of SBC; 1 still is, other now Lutheran.
The blog's main goal is to publicize the stories of women and children who have been sexually and/or spiritually abused by churches and/or church leaders. The comments are often the best part of the blog, because many commenting are former or present members of Evangelical churches with often horrendous tales of their treatment. The blog has reported on the Sovreign Grace Ministries sex abuse scandals, the many horrific tales of the damage done by Mark Driscoll, TheGospelCoalition, TogetherForTheGospel, 9Marks, etc, etc.