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Christa Brown

@christabrown.bsky.social
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Author of BAPTISTLAND | Exposing the truth about systemic abuse & coverups in the Southern Baptist Convention | retired appellate attorney | #ThisistheSBC #SBCtoo | christabrown.substack.com

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 5h
Ken Paxton's record is a "marriage of hypocrisy & cynicism." And guess who lies at the origin of Paxton's political career? Paul Pressler. The infamous Southern Baptist honcho who reportedly abused boys & young men for decades. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ken Paxton’s Christian identity politics obscure a history of scandal | Sidney Blumenthal
The Texas Senate candidate rose to power as a culture warrior. His record is a marriage of hypocrisy and cynicism
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just finished LIVE LAUGH LOVE and... wow! I'm struck by the reminder of how history isn't always something long ago & far away. It's real. It's now. It's in the making. Read LLL & see yourself in it - or maybe some prior version of yourself - and realize how much THIS history is the story of us.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey! Look at this cool candle that just arrived. It's @sarahstankorb.bsky.social, the saint of damned & disobedient women! 😉 I'll be laughing every time I light it. Can't wait to read her new book, DAMNED IF SHE DOES. (And don't you just love that scarlet A on the cover?)
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Jennifer Lee ☀️ @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I grew up under this theology. What you have to understand is that they absolutely do not believe men and women are equal, no matter what they say.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Complementarianism: It's a doctrine from fundamentalist Christianity whose influence on public policy is growing. So, here's a great primer on what complementarianism actually means, with quotes from @aprilajoy.bsky.social @caitwest.bsky.social & @djsugi.bsky.social. www.huffpost.com/entry/comple...
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This Worrying Religious Doctrine Is Having A Moment — And It May Explain Why Women's Rights Are Being Attacked
“[It] inevitably strips women of their agency and gives men a disproportionate amount of power.”
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Feels like I'm watching Mr. Fox brag about his trainings on hen house maintenance." Glad to be quoted here. Rice's words ring hollow. They're a tactic of institutional image management & smoke screen for the reality of how little Southern Baptist leaders actually do. roysreport.com/sbc-presiden...
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SBC president, once an abuse-reform skeptic, now calls for vigilance | The Roys Report
SBC President Willy Rice, who once called the abuse crisis more "hoax than reality," now says abuse requires "constant vigilance."
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And here's the thing... while our instinct may be to dismiss these "Jim Crow Theobros" as fringe, the reality is that, while their in-person congregations are small, their online audiences number in the hundreds of thousands. This is such an important piece from @bmietana.bsky.social.
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Bob Smietana @bmietana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Been working on this for a while about pastors who see the racism and antisemitism of America's past as a feature, not a bug. Meet the Jim Crow Theobros religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The reality...is that adults prefer & protect adults, and the need of the adult being accused is always so much more important than the need to make sure they don't do it again. That's why we have an epidemic of cover-up, not just child sex abuse." - Marci Hamilton
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Have you tried presidenting better?" ⬇️
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For 8 years, Mike Johnson was a trustee for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. This raises questions about what he knew concerning the SBC’s clergy sex abuse problem — questions he should have to address. My column: christabrown.substack.com/p/speaker-mi...
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Speaker Mike Johnson: What Did He Know About the SBC’s Clergy Sex Abuse Problem?
United States Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has mastered the art of feigning ignorance about scandals and controversial issues.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ken Paxton kept on praising Paul Pressler and taking his campaign cash long after the child sex abuse allegations against Pressler were made public.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Statement from the Radio Television Digital News Association:
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Inside these high-control systems…morality itself is redefined. It’s not the things that we think of as morality or even that the religious system holds up as moral. What defines morality is anything that props up the system." - @kkdumez.bsky.social ⬇️ thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-christ...
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How Christian Women Have Upheld MAGA and White Supremacy in America
Author and scholar Kristin Du Mez grew up in conservative America and was a dutiful consumer of “traditional” mainstream Christian culture, such as Amy Grant CDs and frequent trips to Christian book t...
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Why would there need to be a theological project to undermine empathy? Because they are in the process of implementing an authoritarian agenda that is absolutely going to depend on people turning a blind eye to the political violence that they are already unleashing." - @robertpjones.bsky.social
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“In 2024 Trump won the white evangelical vote 82% to 17%. He lost everybody else 58% to 40%... That’s what the white evangelical church did.” - @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social (via @rickpidcock.bsky.social) White evangelicalism has a lot to answer for. baptistnews.com/article/what...
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What’s so upsetting to evangelicals about Kristin Du Mez?
Unfortunately, not everyone in evangelicalism receives Du Mez’s scholarship with such openness, says Rick Pidcock.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In North Carolina, a pastor who is a convicted child sex offender offers the opening prayer at a campaign rally for Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley. And somehow this doesn't even surprise me. abcnews.com/Politics/wir...
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Convicted sex offender offered opening prayer at rally for GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina
A North Carolina pastor who led the opening prayer at a recent campaign stop for Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced to prison
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A beautiful piece of remembrance. ⬇️
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Even a decisive victory for Democrats and a resounding repudiation of Trump & the MAGA Republicans at the polls in November will not guarantee that a Democratic majority-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress on January 3." A clear explanation of how the crisis may unfold. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"A movement should have to answer for the people it elevates, follows, funds, and repeatedly places in power." - Hemant Mehta This means white evangelicals have a heckuva lot to answer for.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Gloria Steinem changed the story women were permitted to tell about themselves. Now it is our responsibility to keep telling the truth—and to make certain that no billionaire, advertiser, government or algorithm can silence it."
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"...after all, for anyone around the globe ever to trust a US government again, Trumpism will need to be thoroughly repudiated...the built environment is a prime candidate for making that distancing visible to the outside world."
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What should we do with Trump’s monstrous architectural legacy? | Jan-Werner Müller
Questions over Trump’s ballroom and other structures might not feel urgent. But when his reign ends, Trumpism must be repudiated
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In advance of the midterms and two weeks before my book LIVE LAUGH LOVE releases, the NYT asked me to write about how popular Christian women’s culture informs the way women vote. And then they created these incredible illustrations. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
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Opinion | The Political Power of Christian Kitsch
Precious Moments figurines and Christian romance novels aren’t overtly political, but they shape how Christian women see themselves and the world.
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Jay Mallow @jaymallow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
All. They. Have. Is. Projection
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/08/2026
I.e., this is apparently its original, rarely-sung last stanza (Springsteen sang a version of it): One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, By the relief office I saw my people. As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuc...
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Bruce Springsteen: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
YouTube video by OberstKrautwaschl
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The problem isn't just the misogynistic ravings of Doug Wilson but how much power is getting behind his theocratic dream. Al Mohler, a top leader in the Southern Baptist Convention parrots Wilson & legitimizes him, and the SBC is the nation's largest Protestant faith group with enormous influence.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Don't laugh! It's tempting to dismiss the thrice-married adulterer whose only experience was TV...... oh shit. Seriously, Hegseth could consolidate the white evangelical vote for the GOP nomination. He's got a blunt racism and sexism that they adore. www.salon.com/2026/08/24/p...
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Pete Hegseth's path to the 2028 GOP nomination isn't a joke
The defense secretary's tough-guy persona may be exactly what wins over white evangelical voters
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If Southern Baptist seminary president Al Mohler has his way, "your citizenship will depend on your affirmation of America as a Christian nation. In essence, protestant Christianity will be the law of the land... This is unAmerican." - @wthrockmorton.bsky.social #ThisistheSBC
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Pretty hard to pretend this culture-warring pronatalism is fringe when the de facto leader of the SBC is espousing it. baptistnews.com/article/mohl...
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Mohler: US must be Protestant nation with many evangelical babies
Survival of the USA hinges on establishing a Protestant nation and encouraging evangelicals to marry and have lots of babies, says Al Mohler,
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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As Ive said ad nauseam--our political crisis is fundamentally a religious crisis, and you can't understand it without understanding white evangelicalism. Dave's work is some of the most insightful I've come across in explaining why they support DJT. hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/the-missio...
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The Missionary Kids' birthday! with Dave Verhaagen
A recording from Holly Berkley Fletcher's live video
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RR Edmonds @rredmondsart.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bait him.
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RNS @rns.org · 20/08/2026
OPINION: (RNS) — For more than 20 years, Southern Baptist leaders have refused to take responsibility for keeping abusers out of church.
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20 years ago, I wrote SBC leaders to warn them about abuse. They are still not listening.
(RNS) — For more than 20 years, Southern Baptist leaders have refused to take responsibility for keeping abusers out of church.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fmr. NSC Dir. Julia Curlee: "All that mattered was that they couldn't be seen to have a trans person working in the White House…They asked me to come back after I was fired because they needed me, but they didn't want anyone to know." Alexander: "They wanted your service, but they didn't want you."
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
People used to say "isolated incidents" when they heard a Baptist clergy sex abuse story. Now they say, "No surprise." The Southern Baptist Convention may never change, but change has happened anyway. #ThisistheSBC religionnews.com/2026/08/19/2...
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20 years ago, I wrote SBC leaders to warn them about abuse. They are still not listening.
(RNS) — For more than 20 years, Southern Baptist leaders have refused to take responsibility for keeping abusers out of church.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
20 years ago, I wrote a letter to then SBC president Frank Page, urging the creation of a centralized system of record-keeping on clergy sex abuse reports. On the anniversary of that letter, here's a look-back at what's changed & what hasn't. #ThisistheSBC christabrown.substack.com/p/twenty-yea...
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Twenty Years Ago: The Beginning of Activist Efforts to Prod SBC Abuse Reform
What’s changed since then and what hasn’t
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"You lose the women, you're toast." - @sarahstankorb.bsky.social
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Described as a “crime drama for a post-Epstein world,” FURIOUS explores what living with profound trauma & injustice can do to a person’s psyche. This is what I'm watching now, and... wow.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Honestly this is the right way to look at things
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David Clohessy @davidclohessy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Important news conference TOMORROW Wed 8/19 Thousands of alleged abusive Protestants' names posted on line! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE spread the word, far & wide. THANKS! protestantaccountability.org/protestant-a...
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"In the White House, people called me 'in­dispensable.' I still was not welcome in their bathrooms." - @juliacurlee.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Phang: Well, the FBI handwritten notes implicate Donald Trump. And I don't think it's a secret why they're doing this dance at the DOJ, to not release them
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"The system itself was built on injustice and abuse, and the system still stands." - @karenswallowprior.bsky.social This is the Southern Baptist Convention. #ThisistheSBC religionnews.com/2026/08/14/j...
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Johnny Hunt’s lawsuit is over. The SBC’s abuse crisis isn’t.
(RNS) — Hunt is willing to pay to restore himself to his position of power and influence, but he is not willing to pay the victim who has paid the greatest cost. This is an apt metaphor for the leader...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Particularly grim outlook for the Southern Baptist Convention, where membership has recently plummeted and internal divisions continue to tighten what it means to be "Southern Baptist." A lot of people are already warning of an ugly feeding frenzy --> series of schisms ahead.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Congress has not ceded unfettered authority to the Executive Branch to dramatically redesign, reshape, and reconstruct the White House – the People’s House – to fit a particular President’s desires.” And too bad about that East Wing, eh?
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Over 4000 lawsuits have alleged sexual assaults by Uber drivers. Publicly, Uber claims it handles the suits in a trauma-informed & survivor-centric way. But this NYT investigation reveals aggressive attack-the-victim tactics. "What were you wearing?" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
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Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’ (Gift Article)
The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right."
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The thin line between US President policy making satire and reality ... via Arthur Barnes
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