Two female alumni of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary have published their stories about how they were mistreated while they were students. And the woman who accused the school’s president, Paige Patterson, of urging her not to report her rape in 2003 has publicly identified herself.
April Armstrong, who graduated from SWBTS in 2007, opined in a blog post Saturday that the recent decision by the seminary trustees to make Patterson the president emeritus of the school was not enough given the “unrelentingly abusive environment” women endured while she was a student. A “culture of silence” has continued to enable that abuse, she argued, not only at the Fort Worth-based seminary but in other Southern Baptist institutions.
Armstrong recounted her experience dating a student who was also employed as a security guard that made manipulative moves and exhibited predatory behavior toward her and another female student. When the two women were summoned for an ethics hearing, the chief of security testified that he was inclined to believe the women.
But a high level administrator who presided over the hearing…
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