She spent decades warning Southern Baptists about abuse. This week's revelations brought ‘no joy.’

For two decades, Christa Brown has stared down evil, has sacrificed endlessly to stop Southern Baptist predators and expose leaders who helped keep them in pulpits.

“For evil to become systemic, it needs a whole lot of enablers,” she said. “And systemic evil is the most destructive kind, with the most victims, because it is so disguised. It is the evil that smiles at you, and behind the scenes is just devastating people.”