R.C. Sproul Jr. leaves Ligonier Ministries a year after public confession on Ashley Madison visit
Prominent Christian minister Robert Charles Sproul Jr., also widely known as R.C. Sproul Jr., has resigned from Ligonier Ministries, a year after he confessed having visited the adultery matchmaking website, Ashley Madison.
Sproul Jr. is the son of Robert Charles Sproul, founder of Ligonier Ministries, a reformed international Christian organization with headquarters in Florida.
His resignation was announced in a statement issued by the organization last Monday, which read in part: "Last Friday, the board of directors of Ligonier Ministries and Reformation Bible College received and affirmed the resignation of Dr. R.C. Sproul Jr. He is stepping away from his duties at the ministry and the college for personal reasons. This was communicated by phone to his father, Dr. R.C. Sproul, the founder of Ligonier Ministries and chancellor of Reformation Bible College, and it was later communicated in writing to the entire board of directors of Ligonier Ministries."
The minister had been suspended from Ligonier Ministries from August 2015 until July 2016 because of his admission that he accessed Ashley Madison back in 2014. In a now-deleted blog post, Sproul Jr. confessed that he visited the site long enough to leave an old email address, not for research purposes but to "fan the flames of my imagination." He wrote that he did so "in a moment of weakness, pain, and from an unhealthy curiosity."
The younger Sproul, however, maintained that he never made a second visit to the controversial website and that no physical relationship was formed from it. He stressed that he had remained faithful to his wife even after her passing in 2011.
In their recently released statement, Ligonier Ministries thanked Sproul Jr. for his contributions and wished him well. While he was still with the ministry, Sproul Jr. served as a teaching fellow as well as rector and chair of philosophy and theology at the organization's Reformation Bible College.
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