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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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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"It’s horrible to have to type these words, but the president of the United States is throwing Vladimir Putin a lifeline. He is turning the American government against Ukraine, funding Russia and — perhaps worst of all — playing directly into Putin’s theory of victory."
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Opinion | Russia Was Losing. Enter President Trump.
The commander in chief is Putin’s ace in the hole.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This really resonated. Thank you for writing it. Thank you for continuing to speak truth.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That was my first thought as well... I can't believe they found a judge to sign off on this.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Exultation... the response of the mostly white Christian crowd to the largest mass execution in American history." An excerpt from the new book by @rickpidcock.bsky.social, "Weapons of Worship: How the Songs of Evangelicalism form the Soundtrack of Extremism." History teaches lessons.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Prediction: They'll use white evangelical worship music to orchestrate the livestreaming of this public execution. It's a whole new hellish level of dystopian depravity.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Republican voters need a permission structure that allows them to get off the Trump train. White evangelicals need that structure to be a God-ordained superhighway with blinking neon lights citing quotable Bible verses." - @hollybfletcher.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run...
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You Can't Run From Christian Nationalism
White evangelicals are the single most influential voting bloc in American politics. They cannot be ignored.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 08/10/2026
'Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya believed that a society that accepts lies ends up accepting violence as well'
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'Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya believed that a society that accepts lies ends up accepting violence as well'
Twenty years ago, the journalist was murdered at the instigation of Russian security services. Documentary filmmaker Eric Bergkraut, who knew her well, recalls in an opinion piece for Le Monde her fight for truth and against Kremlin propaganda – a struggle that is more necessary than ever as Vladimir Putin continues to kill.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“We are currently living in a backslidden democracy that’s been aided & abetted by an apostate white Christianity.” - @robertpjones.bsky.social, in conversation with @jemartisby.bsky.social And what a conversation it was! Have a listen. www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/backslide-...
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Backslide: The Midterm Consequences for Both Christianity and Politics, My Convo with Jemar Tisby
A recording from Robert P. Jones and Jemar Tisby, PhD's live video
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What is it about David Walsh that made him different? Walsh walked away. But why do so many others stay in child-endangering churches? Why isn’t EVERY parent at Brookwood walking out? Read my latest & tell me what you think. christabrown.substack.com/p/parents-sh...
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Parents Should Be Told
A dad decries the “betrayal” of church leaders’ secrecy
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you, Jay. I do have a life that is filled with much joy... and for which I'm very grateful. 🌻
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dennis Hastert was not only a serial child molester himself, but in his position of power, he turned a blind eye to abuses of his colleague Mark Foley. Hastert’s death reminds me of this & how similar child sex abuse coverup patterns persist in Baptistland. christabrown.substack.com/p/dennis-has...
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Dennis Hastert’s Death Reminds of How Child Sex Abuse Coverup Patterns Persist
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert has died.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And... a decade before Dennis Hastert admitted to his own child sex crimes, he also turned a blind eye to former congressman Mark Foley's reported abuses of teen pages, as documented by a bipartisan investigation. I wrote about it here, back in 2006: gfmarchives.com/language-of-...
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's "astoundingly easy" for unqualified & unvetted people to start up a private school & then to get public money from state voucher programs. But even though the private schools get public money, they aren't publicly accountable. Oversight is almost non-existent. This is bad for kids.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“What is distinctive is the way evangelical theology & organizational structures enable those with authority to perpetrate, cover up & dismiss abuse… Evangelicals have created totalizing systems that shield perpetrators & silence victims.” – @kkdumez.bsky.social, LIVE LAUGH LOVE (p. 295)
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Every institution will say: 'We take sexual violence extremely seriously.' And every one will find, with uncanny consistency, reasons not to take it very seriously at all." - @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Under prior leadership, the job of a DOJ attorney was "to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reason." But... "Now the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else..." Attorneys are thrust into ethical crises, and thousands have left. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice are facing a quandary: Should they stay or should they go?
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thanks for bringing this article to my attention. My husband and I are both retired attorneys, and every day, I think about the kinds of ethical & professional quandaries that government lawyers are facing these days.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 26/09/2026
Yup. Listening to Willy Rice brag about Southern Baptist trainings on sexual abuse prevention is kinda like listening to Mike Johnson claim he wants maximum transparency on the Epstein files.
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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 · 22/09/2026
"Tried to obscure information he was claiming to expose." A good way to say it. I remember that little exchange on X. Here's what I told him: he had already forfeited credibility.
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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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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another word I've seen is "Talibaptists."
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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
Congratulations!
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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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