For nearly two decades, one woman stood up to the Southern Baptist Convention, forcing it to face its sex abuse crisis.

She was gaslit, maligned, and threatened with legal action.

But she didn't back down, and on this podcast, you'll hear her story.

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated

to reporting the truth and restoring the church.

I'm Julie Roy's.

And joining me today is Krista Brown,

someone who's become a sort of legend

in the abuse survivor community.

As a 16-year-old girl, Krista was repeatedly raped

by the youth pastor at her Southern Baptist Church,

and when she told the music minister at her church what had happened, he told her to never speak of it.

For 35 years, Krista kept silent, accepting the shame that rightly belonged to her rapist.

But in the early 2000s, Krista broke her silence and confronted her childhood church with what

had happened. She thought they would do the right thing, but instead they attacked her. And that began

a nearly 20-year battle with the Southern Baptist Convention and led to two major investigations,

showing that hundreds of Baptist leaders and volunteers had sexually abused

congregants. We'll get to Christ's story in just a moment, but first, I want to thank the sponsors

of this podcast, Talbot Seminary, and Mark Orda Barrington. Are you passionate about impacting

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