Hunt, a former Georgia megachurch pastor and denominational official who served as SBC president from 2008 to 2010, sued the denomination in 2023, alleging defamation.

Southern Baptist pastor Johnny Hunt, a former SBC president, is suing the SBC Executive Committee and a third-party firm, Guidepost Solutions, for defamation over abuse allegations in a 2022 report.

A judge has set the trial date for former Southern Baptist President Johnny Hunt's lawsuit against the SBC and other entities over alleged defamation and violation of privacy after both sides were ...

Third-party investigator Guidepost Solutions published a historic report in May 2022 on SBC sex abuse crisis, including allegations that former SBC president Johnny Hunt molested a woman in 2010.

(RNS) — One claim, about an allegedly defamatory tweet by another former denominational president, is still live. The SBC has spent more than $3 million in legal fees on the Hunt case.

Hunt filed his six-count, 330-page lawsuit in March 2023, naming the SBC, the SBC Executive Committee and Guidepost Solutions after he was accused of sexual assault by a young minister's wife in ...

Hunt, a 72-year-old longtime pastor who formerly served as president of the SBC, was named in the report, with a woman who was the wife of a young pastor accusing him of having assaulted her in 2010.

Hunt, a former Georgia megachurch pastor and denominational official who served as SBC president from 2008 to 2010, sued the denomination in 2023, alleging defamation. Hunt was named in the ...