RNS published a story about the Sills lawsuit Nov. 28 and noted at the end of the story the complaint against Smietana and RNS. It also names Jennifer Lyell, a former seminarian and vice president for Lifeway, who repeatedly alleged Sills was abusive, an allegation Mohler has also made on social media and in . The same day, Geiger and Lyell contacted Mohler, he said. In fact, she claims in a newly leaked audio recording that she has been vague intentionallyso that the Sills grandchildren wouldnt find out much about this by using Google. The outlet additionally reported that Sills has also resigned as a trustee of the SBC International Mission Board and his position on IMB's presidential search committee. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. 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But that description misses the power imbalance at play. Lyell, who served as vice president of LifeWay Christian Resources, posted a confession in 2018 claiming how Sills, who has been married for over 30 years, sexually abused her and groomed her. Lyell explained that she decided to go public with her story after hearing that Sills was appointed to serve as a missionary with a mission agency not affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Tom Ascol, Tom Buck and Megan Basham tweeted about the Sills lawsuit and accused not only Lyell, but also Religion News Service reporter Bob Smietana who has covered the SBCs sexual abuse situation for years of misconduct. ", As a result of the conversation upon Sills' return, Mohler said "he was no longer a member of the faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from that time.". Sills also served as an International Mission Board (IMB) trustee and a member of the IMBs presidential search committee. The article was eventually retracted, but the damage was done. In fact, the key facts alleged are right in the first few paragraphs: 1. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Nine months after Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor David Sills resigned for undisclosed reasons, a woman has released a statement of allegations including details of what she says was a morally inappropriate relationship with Sills for more than a decade, beginning while she was a Southern Seminary student. She began her thread saying, " What I referenced today about the Baptist Press' defamatory statements regarding @jenlyell and her abuser, former SBTS prof. David Sills, was the tip of the iceberg. That happened three months prior to release of a bombshell report from an independent investigation that found widespread mishandling of known cases of sexual abuse in the SBC and its churches. Lyell feared he would once again have the opportunity to abuse others and wanted to stop that from happening. Lyell told Baptist Press she has attempted to contact the Louisville Metro Police Departments Special Victims Unit. In that email, Lyell makes the exact statement the lawsuit attributes to communication with Smietana. Sills was a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary until his resignation on May 23, 2018. But we must not be silent.. . The Southern Baptist Conventions Executive Committee earlier this year offered a public apology and a confidential monetary settlement to Lyell and announced the resolution during their February meeting in Nashville. A reasonable inference is also that Defendant Lyell intended to advance her false narrative by taking a hand in the actual writing of an article by RNS and Smietana, each of whom had previously served as a resource to Defendant Lyell for the purpose of publishing her malicious allegations against the Sills Plaintiffs. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". Lyell contends it was not consensual. In a filing made in the Mobile, Ala., Circuit Court, David and Mary Sills allege "defamation, conspiracy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, and . Secondly, on information and belief, defendants SBC, the Executive Committee, and Lifeway own and maintain property, employees and/or agents in Alabama, including Mobile County, Alabama. Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. told Baptist Press he could not disclose why Sills employment at the seminary ended. It also names Jennifer Lyell, a former seminarian and vice president for Lifeway, who has repeatedly alleged that Sills was abusive, an allegation Mohler has also made on social media and in an interview for a documentary about the denomination's response to its sexual abuse crisis. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". In her statement, Lyell accused Sills of "grooming and taking advantage of his student." Lyell first disclosed the situation to a therapist in March 2016, she said. George, as curator of the Spurgeon Library and digitized archive, worked with the . Buck, like Ascol, holds no official role in SBC life and has no direct connection to her claims of abuse from Sills. Ascol ran for SBC president on the slogan Change the direction.. Critics of the SBC investigation and of the existence of a crisis of sexual abuse in the denomination frequently point to Lyells story as questionable, but they have been minority voices. Then Buck retweeted Basham to highlight her commentary about Sills and the SBC investigation. There are elements that sound like an abuse victim pleading with an abuser, I just want you to be like a dad, and there are elements where the story does not seem plausible given what we knowpay special attention to the police. 1. By Lyells previous accounts, Sills cultivated a relationship with her. The ex-Southern Baptist Convention seminary professor accused of sexual abuse by his former student filed a defamation suit in Alabama against her and several SBC entities, claiming the allegations. Instead of receiving support and compassion, she found herself trying to convince critics she was not responsible for the abuse she had experienced at the hands of the former professor. Ascol, Buck and Basham had collaborated with the source of the original quotation that Sills took out of context in his recent lawsuit. David Sills and his wife, Mary Sills, claim Lyell 'constructed a false narrative . . Although the lawsuit was filed in Alabama, David Sills lives in Mississippi. It interwove Lyells story with this discussion. Sills has not denied engaging in an inappropriate relationship with Lyell, and he resigned his post at Southern Seminary after being confronted about it. Sills was a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary until his resignation on May 23, 2018. Lyell was even commended in an SBC Resolution for her bravery in standing against sex abuse. That report also cited the Lyell case. David Sills (Photo via Baptist Press) 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. Any criticism of complementarianism is seen as a sort of gateway drug into theological liberalism., I think a culture that believes that its righteousness is dependent on preserving and protecting the strictest form of complementarianism is a culture that sees women as a threat, sees women as a risk, sees women as more likely to sin, she said. So that's not up for renegotiation," he explained. Instead, from this news story (with details not included in the Guidepost Report), you can see that the sexual relationship between Jennifer Lyell and David Sills first occurred when Jenn was 26 and David Sills was 49. Neither Smietana nor his editor offered comment to BNG when asked about the situation. Lyell said that at the time, she did not want the seminary or Lifeway to publicly disclose what had happened to her. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. Instead of reporting she had been abused, Nashville-based Baptist Press, which is overseen by the Southern Baptist Conventions Executive Committee, reported in March 2019 that Lyell, then a vice president at Lifeway Christian Resources, had admitted being involved in a morally inappropriate relationship with her former professor. Read our republishing, terms of use and privacy policies here. A clergy person has enormous power. Mohler commended Lyells courage in coming forward. The SBCs public relations service, Baptist Press, misrepresented her statements about the situation, which eventually led to a public apology and a financial settlement from the SBC Executive Committee, which runs Baptist Press. In June, BP reported Sills also had resigned as president of Reaching and Teaching International Ministries, a missions organization that engages in discipleship and theological education internationally. He said people often turn to clergy when they are at their most vulnerable. Lyell built a strong relationship with Sills family over the years as she spent many of her weekends and holidays with them. In a filing made in the Mobile, Ala., Circuit Court, David Sills, former pastor of now-closed Woodland Hills Church, Jackson, and his wife Mary Sills allege "defamation, conspiracy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, and wantonness concerning untrue claims of sexual abuse" initiated by Jennifer Lyell, with whom David Sills He said it is often easier for churches to blame victims than to look at the way they have empowered abusers. To date, none of the named defendants has issued a public comment on the lawsuit. I have never been unwilling to be questioned when making allegations that arent only moral, but are also criminal and Im extremely thankful that all parties who received and investigated my allegations did press me for details necessary to understand what I was alleging given my age and the fact it was not a single occurrence as well as that I did not report anything to them for a very long time.. Ascol retweeted her, insisting: Exactly. She said Southern Baptist leaders do not hesitate to use their public platforms to debate theology or drive culture war issues but rarely call out abusive behavior in their own camp especially if it means correcting other denominational leaders. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. They didnt they just kind of defaulted to me, and then realized later, Oh, crap, we shouldnt have done that., SBC Elites cite distinguished lawyer and Southern Baptist Matthew Martens; however, Martens has written persuasively, Supporters of a constitutional amendment to ban women pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), New intel points to Covid origin in a lab leak, remember when this was a, NAMB PR VP Mike Ebert emerges as key witness in McRaney v. 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The string of email correspondence viewed by BNG implies Buck contacted Lyell to ask questions about her claims. Want to share a story? Christian leaders need to remember that they are called to be shepherds in the model of the Good Shepherd, she said, protecting the sheep even if the wolves include their fellow leaders., A woman holds signs about abuse during a rally outside the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex on June 11, 2019, in Birmingham, Ala. RNS photo by Butch Dill. Veinot and his senior researcher, Ron Henzel, had conducted a video interview with Lyell and wrote about it on their blog under the headline Does Abuse Absolve Adultery? Jennifer Lyell . 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As such, Jennifer Lyell seems to be someone who is the victim of horrendous sexual abuse. Those documents include emails between the various parties. At the time, she was a 26-year-old master of divinity student, and the alleged relationship continued until she was 38, spanning a period in which Lyell moved from Louisville, Ky., to Chicago and then to Nashville, she told BP. It presented its report just prior to the SBCs annual meeting last summer.). Lyell came to us with an allegation of abuse and should have been cared for throughout the entire process. 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Sills admitted to engaging in inappropriate sexual activity and tendered his resignation. Geiger alleged that Mary Sills threatened Jennifer Lyell in text messages and that Mrs. Sills knew of the relationship between Jennifer Lyell and David Sills. But at Lyells request, SBTS, the flagship seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, did not make the details behind Sills resignation public at the time. But Mohler confirmed that Lyell shared allegations with him in May 2018 and that Southern, as Lyell stated, immediately took action., Lyell said in her statement, The denominational institutions, the local church, and the missions agency [Sills led] ultimately believed me, supported me, and took the action for which they were responsible., Baptist Press reported Sills resignation in June 2018 based on reporting by North Carolinas Biblical Recorder news journal, which cited a statement from the seminary affirming that Mohler received the resignation of Dr. David Sills from the Southern Seminary faculty on May 23, 2018., It further stated, Southern Seminary is committed to the highest standards of both principle and policy. But I am a victim nonetheless.. She lost her reputation, her job and even her health in the process. However, today's topic is not about an up-and-coming musician, rather it is a cautionary tale for up-and-coming ministers of the Gospel. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Photo by Karen Race Photography 2019. I now wonder if the only reason that a family relationship was ever presented as an option was to ensure I wouldnt tell what had happened in those first instances.. Sills resigned from the Kentucky-based schoollast May shortly after Lyell presented her claims to SBTS President Albert Mohler. The hundreds of titles that the Books business team has acquired, developed, or managed under Jennifer's leadership include more than a dozen New York Times bestsellers, as well as CT . The implication of Ms. Lyells statement was that Dr. Sills had acted criminally. Survivors dont just lose their trust in that one person, she said. The lawsuit challenges what has been accepted as fact in one of the highest-profile cases in the web of allegations regarding mishandling of sexual abuse within the SBC. Lawsuit protests the SBC and third-party firm for supporting allegations in a new legal challenge referencing historic abuse report. Lyell was labeled on social media as an adulteress rather than an abuse survivor, with users leaving scores of vile comments about her on Lifeways Facebook page and the Baptist Press website. In a grievance filed Nov. 21 within the Circuit Courtroom of Cell, Alabama, David Sills, a former professor of missions and [] Henzel told CR that he did not know how the audio was leaked and did not feel comfortable speaking about it. Mohler said his encouragement from the start in any case such as this is that authorities be contacted and that only law enforcement should judge whether laws may have been violated in such situations. In a statement posted on her website, Jennifer Lyell, who is now 41 and works for a major Christian book publisher, said Sills first "sexually acted" against her on a mission trip in 2004 and that the relationship continued until she was 38. InterVarsity Press, which published one of Sills' books, removed Sills' biography page from its website and the webpage for Sills book Changing World, Unchanging Mission: Responding to Global Challenges. Based on the information we now have I retract any suggestion that Jennifer Lyells physical relationship with David Sills was consensual. The police issue is difficult because this would have been a call to the local SBTS area police in 2018. Nine months after The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) professor David Sills resigned for undisclosed reasons, a woman has released a statement of allegations including details of what she describes as sexual abuse by Sills, beginning while she was a Southern Seminary student. The campus of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the flagship seminary for the Southern Baptist Convention, located in Louisville, Kentucky. Though 30 pages in length, the key facts allged are right on the first page. All rights reserved. She said she was a 26-year-old Master of Divinity student when it began. Litigating this case publicly could cause extreme discomfort for some of the defendants named, forcing them to testify under oath about matters they have tried to handle discreetly. Within days, the professor had been confronted and resigned. This wasnt by accident; I believe it was by design, Lyell wrote. She did so after learning her abuser, former Southern Baptist seminary professor, author, and missionary David Sills, had recently returned to ministry. Anytime time you have to invoke these procedures is heartbreaking but simultaneously necessary. Just over two years later, she stated the allegations to then-LifeWay Senior Vice President Eric Geiger and Mohler. Here's how. So she wrote up a statement detailing the abuse and shared it with a reporter from a Christian news organization. Of course, Lyell spoke to multiple media outlets and is featured in a new documentary on sex abuse in the SBC. (June 15, 2020) Letter from David S. Crawford, Streetscape Coordinator, St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Association (EX.Supp . Some especially a group of Calvinist pastors questioned Lyells account and accused her of trying to make a consensual affair look like abuse. On page 18 of the Sills lawsuit, Sills and his attorneys present their accusation as fact. If this seems like a contradiction, this is just the beginning. Guidepost and the SBC are two of 12 total defendants named in the lawsuit that revolves around allegations that David Sills sexually abused Jennifer Lyell starting in 2004, when Lyell was. We were horrified by what she shared with us. Ensuring that is my top priority.". The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Rest assured, though, that regardless of venue, the case will be vigorously defended.. I am also grateful for the bold leadership of Grant Gaines, Ronnie Parrot, and Todd Benkert. If you do not know your new account number you can contact. I now realize that despite SBTS handling the situation justly and as I asked without stating the reason for his resignation it led to the exact kind of scenario the SBC is now trying to prevent, she said. Anthony Jackson Age 51. On October 7, 2019, Jennifer Lyell, a LifeWay employee, penned an open letter to Southern Baptists expressing her grief caused by what she alleges was an erroneous Baptist Press report released in March this year. 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