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 served from 2008 to 2010 as SBC president and remained a popular speaker before the Guidepost report. Court-ordered mediation on the case failed last fall. A trial had been scheduled this summer.

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.

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 ...

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.

In March 2023, Hunt filed a lawsuit against the denomination, the SBC Executive Committee, and Guidepost, accusing them of wrongfully defaming his character and violating his privacy.

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 ...