Ethan LonghenryJun 9, 2025

Monday Miscellany!

This week:
- Living is #Christ, dying is gain
- the end of John's #Gospel
- #election and #obedience
- #Bible readings
- On the Internets: #psychedelics , lamenting the death of #JenniferLyell
- Book reviews: John #commentaries

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Jun 9, 2025

"Lyell was labeled a temptress and adulteress who led a Christian leader astray. She was showered with hate, with pastors and churches calling for her to be fired. A prominent activist journalist published an account alleging that Lyell had been less than truthful and arguing that Sills had been denied a chance to return to ministry."

~ Bob Smietana

#SouthernBaptistConvention #JenniferLyell #SexualAbuse #misogynyt #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy
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https://religionnews.com/2025/06/08/jennifer-lyell-sbc-abuse-survivor-and-former-lifeway-executive-has-died/

As Southern Baptists gather, death of former SBC publishing exec looms over abuse debate

(RNS) — Lyell was once one of the highest-ranking women in the Southern Baptist Convention, but her life fell apart after she reported alleged abuse by a former SBC seminary professor.

RNS
William Lindsey Jun 9, 2025

But three years ago, Lyell told Du Mez that she didn't think she could live much longer with the torment the institution was visiting on her with a vicious smear campaign — that her body was giving out.

And she has now died of massive strokes, aged 47.

"Jennifer did what she did for love. She did it to protect other women. She also did it to protect the church that she loved.

That love placed her in directly in the line of fire."

#SouthernBaptistConvention #JenniferLyell #SexualAbuse
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