Karl interviews Alan Briggs, a pastor, the author of Staying is the New Going, the host of the Right Side Up Leadership podcast and StayForth.com. GROSS: So in this new independent report that was released, Johnny Hunt, a former Southern Baptist Convention president, was accused of sexually assaulting a woman from his church in 2010, one month after his presidency ended because of term limits. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. GROSS: When you were doing the 2019 investigation into sexual abuse in the church, how did survivors react knowing that you were taking their allegations seriously, and in some cases, like, you were proving those allegations were actually accurate, that these people needed to be believed? Sign up for our newsletter: Is that what has happened? Yet they claimed tax credit (which means they want the government to reimburse them for money they spent) totaling $189,600 for money they claimed they paid the people listed on that document. You know, we had people who spoke openly and had clearly - you know, I don't want to say moved past their attack but were very able to talk about it and had, clearly, through help, gotten past it, as far as one can. I hung up, saddened again by the behavior of people who sully the name of Jesus because were not keeping our financial house in order. An anonymous informant also alleges in the police report that she falsified curriculum for teacher development classes, causing a contractor to be falsely billed for federal grant funds for the church affiliated Bishop McManus Academy. WJXT And again, feeling uncomfortable.". I'm wondering if the church tried to discredit the children to their own parents. And there are actually a lot of people, you know, just online that have rallied behind him and his version of the story, which is that it was a consensual - you know, a moral failing - you know, that type of coded language. Christa Brown, the survivor that you're quoting, I believe later in that quote described it as a poor sieve of the denomination, and, I mean, I think this week's report really does speak to that, as well as our reporting previously, now - in 2019, as part of our first round of stories, we focused in part on people who had been accused of sex crimes or offenses at churches and were able to find other jobs at other churches, and we found 35 of them. Another branch, Hillsong Kansas City, which launched in 2019, quietly separated from Hillsong about two weeks ago and relaunched as Kingdom City Church. First Republic Talks Extend Into Night After Banks Place Bids, Person robbed at bus stop near UC Berkeley campus, Four people stabbed during fight in downtown San Jose. SOUTHLAND CITY CHURCH. And what we see in this report really corroborates what survivors have been saying for years, which was that Southern Baptist leaders were, at best, not taking the crisis seriously, at worst, actively misleading their own churches about it as a means of protecting the SBC from lawsuits. Many churches are enslaved by unsustainable debt. Chico State professor and his estranged wife each testify as university pushes for restraining order DOWNEN: Right. Our churches need to be places worthy of those gifts and that provision. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. The press office also declined to say whether Mr. Houstons wife, Bobbie, whose title was also Global Senior Pastor, remained employed by the church. A study of that inception, White Evangelical Racism, published last year, studied the roots of the SBC in the south. Embezzlement Church Crime Information WebOwen McManus Jr., a third-generation minister and his wife, Tammy, who lead the 4,000-member City Church of New Orleans and its affiliated grammar school, Bishop
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