A pastor who taught at a Baptist seminary has committed suicide just days after his name was exposed by the hackers of Ashley Madison – the adultery website. Before his death, the pastor taught at a Baptist seminary in New Orleans.
A native of Louisiana, 56 year old John Gibson was born into a long line of Baptist ministers, according to NOBTS. He earned a master’s degree in divinity and a doctorate in theology from the college, where he had worked since 1998. At the time of his death, he was also a pastor at the First Southern Baptist Church in Mississippi.
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He was married with two children. His daughter, Callie, was teaching in front of 250 college students when she got the call. Her father had killed himself.
His wife of 30 years, Christi Gibson told CNN. how she found the body of her husband, John, in their on-campus home at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary on Aug. 24, days after his name was among the millions of identities revealed to have signed up for Ashley Madison – a website for those seeking extramarital affairs.
Christi said: “It was a moment that life doesn’t prepare you for. I had to call my kids. How do you tell your kids that their dad is gone and that he took his own life?”
“We all have things that we struggle with, but it wasn’t so bad that we wouldn’t have forgiven it,” Christi told CNN. “But for John, it carried such a shame, and he just couldn’t see that.”
My dad reached such a point of hopelessness and despair that he took his own life,” his son, Trey, said during his eulogy late last month. “When he closed his eyes, he opened them and felt only the warm embrace of his savior.”
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