BOCA RATON (FL)
United Press International
March 7, 2019
By Susan M. Shaw
Recent media reports have revealed decades of abuse by Southern Baptist pastors.
Denominational leaders are offering apologies and calling the sexual abuse “evil,” “unjust” and a “barbarity of unrestrained sinful patterns.” Many Southern Baptist leaders are considering action.
As a scholar who has written a book on Southern Baptist women and the church, I’d argue that this scandal has its origins in how Southern Baptists have long and purposefully pushed back against women’s progress.
Since the Southern Baptist Convention’s founding in 1845, Southern Baptists have had a complicated history with women.
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