SBC launches ‘study group’ focusing on sexual abuse in the church

ALABAMA
AL.com

July 28, 2018

By Abbey Crain

The Southern Baptist Convention, under new president, J.D. Greear, launched a “study group” that will focus on sexual harassment and abuse in the church.

The announcement came one month after Paige Patterson was fired as president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a subgroup of SBC, for brushing off rape allegations presented to him and then denying it to the SBC.

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