For years, Ravi Zacharias labeled her a predator and a serial extortionist, and sadly, the world believed him.

But now we know better, Ravi Zacharias was the predator in what was dubbed in 2017 as a sexting scandal.

And Lori Ann Thompson was not just the victim of clergy's sexual abuse,

but of a worldwide campaign to smear her name. Welcome to the Roy's report, a podcast dedicated

to reporting the truth and restoring the church. I'm Julie Roy's. And today we're going to hear

what was definitely a highlight of the recent Restore

Conference at Judson University. Lori Ann Thompson, one of Ravi's multiple sex abuse victims,

took this stage with well-known author and academic Karen Swallow Pryor. And as you'll hear,

Pryor begins a session with an emotional apology for not believing Thompson when Pryor first

learned of the so-called sexting scandal. And in all honesty, many of us didn't believe Thompson

early on. I, like many others, read the Christianity Today article in 2017 with Ravi's full-throated

rebuttal and I believed Ravi.

I'm ashamed of that today and I'm very grateful that the woman I disbelieved at first,

Lori Ann Thompson, is someone that today I can call a friend.

And not only has she forgiven me for believing Ravi,

but in September 2020, Lori Ann Thompson gave me the

great privilege of telling her story to the world. Some of it had been reported before by

Steve Boffman, author of Cover Up in the Kingdom and blogger Julianne Smith. But I received overwhelming

evidence and documentation that Ravi indeed was a sexual predator and

Lori Ann was his prey. So what you're about to hear is very personal for me. I love Lori Ann,

and I'm so grieved by what happened to her, and I'm in awe of her resiliency and the wisdom

she's gained through an unbelievably traumatic experience. But before we

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