308: Surviving Abuse and Betrayal by the Southern Baptist Convention | Christa Brown
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
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🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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It began with just wanting to tell the truth. But truth-telling has a way of snowballing.
When Christa Brown first spoke out about the sexual abuse she endured in her Texas childhood church, she never imagined it would expose the ethical chasm at the core of the Southern Baptist Convention: male religious leaders so focused on institutional protection that they sacrifice the safety of children.
A book about speaking out and speaking up, Baptistland weaves together Christa’s revealing story of hope amid Southern patriarchy and religious fundamentalism. You’ll meet the young Christa who endures family dysfunction, the trauma of bodily desecration, and the death blows of a gaslighting church and faith community. Then you’ll meet the Christa transformed who finds her voice and rises above the limited expectations of her given culture, becoming a successful attorney and earning the title of advocate for clergy sex abuse survivors.
Ultimately, Christa Brown grows into a vivid tree of life, rooted in love, individuality, beauty, and goodness. But it was unrelenting honesty, to herself and others, that guided her to this ordinary paradise. Baptistland speaks to the power of truth-telling—to ourselves, our relationships, and our institutions.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.2 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:20.4 | The testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. |
| 0:26.8 | Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:29.8 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 0:34.4 | Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. |
| 0:38.7 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. Krista, thank you so much for |
| 0:43.2 | joining me on today's show. |
| 0:44.7 | Thank you for having me. Eric, I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:47.3 | It has been a struggle to get this episode together. For those of you tuning in, we were |
| 0:52.9 | supposed to record a couple days ago and then just |
| 0:54.9 | everything went haywire on my end technically. And so I'm going into this with so much |
| 1:01.1 | pressure to make this the best interview possible to make up for it. But yeah, I guess first and |
| 1:06.7 | foremost, before we dive into the very beginning of your story, I mean, just recently, |
| 1:14.4 | the president of the Southern Baptist Convention gave you a shout out, and I have to ask about it. |
| 1:19.6 | He said, I believe we'll have names on a database very soon. When we do have names on a database, |
| 1:25.4 | that's not going to stop Krista from being unhappy with the SBC. |
| 1:29.2 | What would make you happy with the SBC at this point? |
| 1:33.6 | Oh, well, if they did what they promised a couple years ago, if they did what they should have done easily 17 years ago because they've known about this problem for so long, |
| 1:47.0 | they need to have a system, an effective functioning system for record keeping and information sharing on credibly accused clergy sex abusers. |
| 1:59.4 | I mean, this isn't rocket science, folks. They need to do that and not |
| 2:05.2 | just talk about that. And they haven't even come close. I mean, they promised a database a couple |
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