Christa Brown
Author of BAPTISTLAND | Exposing the truth about systemic abuse & coverups in the Southern Baptist Convention | retired appellate attorney | #ThisistheSBC #SBCtoo | christabrown.substack.com
- Brava! She refuses to lend legitimacy to an illegitimate process. This is what principled leadership looks like.
- "For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
- Because of course they have...
- What happens when a child-serving organization fosters a culture of impunity? When they act as though clergy sex abuse is just “a mistake?” The culture persists, the patterns repeat, more child predators infiltrate & more kids get hurt. #ThisistheSBC christabrown.substack.com/p/when-a-chi...
- Hopeful: Most Americans think Trump is "a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited." De-hoping: 73% of white evangelicals still think Trump is "a strong leader who should be given the power he needs." From @robertpjones.bsky.social & @prripoll.bsky.social. baptistnews.com/article/prri...
- 56% of white evangelicals believe the government should place immigrants into militarized internment camps. In no other major religious group did a majority hold this view. Authoritarian theology begets authoritarian views. From @robertpjones.bsky.social. ⬇️ baptistnews.com/article/prri...
- Jeff Dalrymple blames the Southern Baptist Convention's clergy sex abuse crisis on "the Sexual Revolution" of the 1960s. Really. 🙄 It is a cowardly & disingenuous deflection, and when I saw it, I sat & screamed. Then I wrote this column. #ThisistheSBC baptistnews.com/article/sbc-...
