Writing in a post on SBC Issues Thursday, Sharayah Colter, who previously worked as a journalist, argued that her husband's former boss, whom she considered a personal friend, is "not guilty of all of which he has been accused in recent days," including encouraging a former student not to report an alleged rape. Seminary officials, she said, did not give him an opportunity to defend himself at the May 30 meeting where the decision was made to fire him.
The board of trustees of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary located in Ft. Worth, Texas, announced Wednesday that Patterson had been fired effective immediately and that they had cut all ties with him after new details, which they did not reveal, emerged about his handling of a sexual abuse allegation while he was president at another institution.
Sharayah Colter revealed that her husband received a call from the chairman of the...
