The Silenced Truth

What does it mean that 93% of convicted sex offenders identify as religious? And what does it take for faith communities built on truth-telling to finally hear and respond to this fact? The Silenced Truth is a documentary podcast series that follows survivors of sexual abuse inside faith communities and covers the institutions that often choose to protect power over people. Each episode exposes the real human consequences of systems designed to silence the ones they were supposed to protect. The series began inside the Southern Baptist Convention, where survivors exposed decades of institutional cover-ups and forced a public reckoning. But the pattern is not unique to one denomination or one tradition. It lives wherever leaders have never been trained to recognize the threat — and wherever they have chosen not to look. This series is both an accounting and an education — for survivors who need to have their experience named, and for leaders who still have time to choose differently. The Silenced Truth is the storytelling arm of the Safe to Speak Initiative, which advocates for better laws for survivors. To learn more, visit safetospeak.info and join the Safe to Speak Patreon advocacy community at patreon.com/SafeToSpeak.