Everything You Need to Know in One Minute

The Short List

Jim Wright, Sexual Abuse Advocate?

Keith W. Smith Academic Fraud

Here’s what you need to know, with links to the longer articles that will give you more information about Jim and Marianne Wright’s complicity with Keith and Jeanne Elder Smith in slandering and attacking multiple people online.  Just click on each point and you’ll be taken to the article with documentation where it’s available online.

• Jim Wright’s Facebook Page was suspended and the Crossroad Junction Page sponsored by him and his wife Marianne, deleted for Multiple Community Guidelines Violations
• 2019 Update

• Keith W. Smith was a confessed Academic and Professional Fraud from Germany used by Jim Wright to promote false accusations against multiple people

• Jim Wright claims to be an Elder despite lacking Biblical qualifications and independent confirmation of the title or existence of the claimed fellowships

• Jim Wright was excommunicated from at least one local church in Manassas Virginia in 2009 and has posted he was part of a group in Davidsonville Maryland, expelled from a United Methodist Church from the 1970s

• Jim Wright was excommunicated by a collective group of more than 35 organic church figures and leaders

• Jim Wright was cast out of the Moral Majority along with the entire Maryland Chapter in 1981 after he embarrassed the group Nationally in December of 1980

• Jim Wright and his parents have Deep Ties to the “Shepherding Movement” cult of the 1970s and 1980s.  Jim Wright has publicly denied such association despite clear and overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

• Jim Wright routinely exaggerates his association with credible organizations to make himself seem credible
  

  Jim Wright’s Web of Organizations

• Jim Wright’s Website shows evidence of “back-linking” methods known as black-hat and often used by spammers and unethical marketers

• Jim Wright backdated a key post on his website to deceive readers concerning one of his excommunications 

• Jim Wright attacks others using innuendo and accusations in areas he has personally failed as well, such as his first marriage

You can learn more about Bart Breen HERE.

When Jim Wright addresses his own issues and accepts correction and removes his false public accusations and confesses to his and his wife Marianne’s wrongs, then this site will be removed, but not until.

Update March 2019

Jim Wright

Same Old Pattern

As he has done before in the past, Jim Wright has changed his site and organization names to make it harder for unsuspecting people to discover the past that discredits and embarrasses him.

It’s March 2019, and I want to give a brief report on what’s taken place over the last four years to the present. (My last update to the site was in 2015.)

Keith Smith has Reportedly Died

Keith Smith – the man who supported Jim Wright in his smear campaigns against others and was used by Jim Wright with no evidence of due diligence or personal integrity – suddenly died a year ago in February of 2018 according to online reports.  Keith Smith confessed publicly, after repeatedly being confronted about and lying repeatedly, that he was an academic fraud. He claimed multiple PhDs and was unable to prove he had anything more than a partial undergraduate record. He had a long and sordid history as a religious con-artist and grifter.

Nothing has Changed with Jim Wright

Wright has lost all credibility in the Christian world, except for a small number of people, most of whom who don’t know his character or past history of abuse, bullying, personal issues, and intentionally spreading smears against leaders he doesn’t like.

To hide his intentions, Wright will sometimes report on genuine cases of abuse alongside of his smear campaigns against people whom he’s intentionally lying about.

Wright’s initial smear campaign against a group of leaders – some of who were once (not presently) associated with the “house church movement” – began in 2012. All of those attacks have been fully debunked over six years ago.

Despite this, Wright is still attacking these same people, hoping that some who are ignorant of the disturbing issues in his own personal life and dishonest history will give him a listening ear.

It is astounding that a man of Wright’s scandalous personal history of divorce and estranged children would have the audacity to be casting stones at other people.

Be Warned, Jim Wright has a Long, Ugly History

I’m writing today to issue this update to warn you that:

(1) Jim Wright has yet to repent of his lies and deliberate defamation of leaders he doesn’t know or has ever met but who he’s taken personal offense with. (See my response to his absurd lies about me after exposing him and his history of abuse.)

(2) If you are Facebook friends with Jim Wright, you should unfriend him immediately because friending him only empowers him to continue in his sin and you are actually participating in that sin through your support. This is why the Bible teaches that no follower of Jesus should associate with people who commit the sin of slander and do not repent.  Wright currently uses a Facebook Page that he renamed after his Crossroad Junction Page was closed by Facebook for multiple community guideline violations. He’s repeated past patterns and created the illusion of a vast following despite very little actual interaction.

But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people. 1 Corinthians 5:11

Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them. Titus 3:10

My hope is that before he dies, Wright will come clean, repent, and apologize to those he has abused over the years through slander, bullying, and harassment.

Why Am I Still Warning People About Jim Wright?

He Hasn’t Posted Much for Over a Month

Am I just “Piling On?”

Some may ask why I’ve bothered over the past month to continue to post articles revealing the past of Jim Wright, especially in the wake of his Crossroad Junction Page being removed by Facebook.

Here’s why.

Jim and Marianne Wright’s Blog Still Speaks

1. Although Jim Wright isn’t posting his typical vitriol and venom over the past month, his Crossroad Junction blog still remains up with his past articles against multiple people perpetuating and continuing to distribute his lies.  His blog still speaks. Just because his lies and slander got him removed from Facebook for Multiple Community Guideline Violations, it’s clear there are no such guidelines at work on his blogs or through his alleged fellowships.

Unwary Sexual Abuse Victims May Still Contact The Wrights

Jim Wright Self-Proclaimed Demagogue

Jim Wright’s Reputation with Maryland Legislators

Called a “Self Proclaimed Demagogue”

This is a continuation of a series started HERE that provides much of the history of Jim Wright, along with his father Bob Wright, in the Shepherding Movement and intense political activism.

This is an article in the Annapolis Capitol that further gives some insight into the arrogance and bullying that Jim Wright became well known for in Maryland. What is sad is that these tactics continually backfired and in the end wound up harming the causes Jim Wright claimed to be supporting.  Most issues Jim Wright pursued ended up losing, often times in part because of his actions.  This is why the Moral Majority quickly kicked Jim Wright and the Maryland Chapter that was founded jointly by his father Bob Wright, out of the national organization, after Jim Wright embarrassed them nationally in the press with an attempt to close a bakery that Jim Wright claimed was selling “Pornographic Gingerbread Men.”

Family Rights Lobby Gets Chilly Reception

Jim Wright – Sleazy Tactics

Unethical Tactics Embarrass Pro-Life Movement

First Cookies then This

This is a continuation of a series begun HERE.

As has been noted in this series before, Jim Wright’s shenanigans throughout the 1980s were the target of a great deal of ridicule and they resulted in national embarrassment with the Moral Majority rejecting their Maryland Chapter and tossing them along with Jim Wright out of the organization. You can see see why with these types of campaigns that continued even after the Moral Majority wisely and quickly disassociated themselves from the sleazy tactics of Jim Wright and the Family Protection Lobby.

This article is presented without extensive comment as a further example of the scorched earth type tactics employed by Jim Wright in promoting his agendas. Keep in mind that much of the criticism of these actions came from fellow Pro-Life supporters. The issue wasn’t the Pro-Life position.  The issue was the underhanded and unethical tactics employed.  30+ years later Jim Wright hasn’t changed very much.  He still skirts the edge of slander and libel in his predictable and apparently compulsive attacks upon others.

Jim Wright Embarrasses the Anti-Abortion Campaign in Maryland

Jim Wright Stacks the Deck

Stacking the Deck is Nothing New for Jim Wright

This Sounds Familiar

This is the continuation of a series examining the history of Jim Wright and the Family Protection Lobby, which begins HERE.

Jim Wright – Stacking the Deck

The more I learn of the long stream of public scandals involving Jim Wright and the Family Protection Lobby which Jim purportedly ran under the nepotistic appointment of his father Bob Wright, who established multiple organizations in different spheres of Community, Government and Religion, the more I see a thread of similar actions at work today. When I first became familiar with Jim Wright, it was initially through his announcement through Crossroad Junction where he made outrageous and false accusations against a Christian Brother, by citing another organization called Nathan’s Voice which he claimed had investigated the basis of his charges independently.  It turned out that Nathan’s Voice was none other than Jim Wright himself speaking for an organization with no other named parties.  Add to that that Jim Wright used a professional and academic fraud to trump up additional false charges and you see the type of man he really is.

This type of blatantly unethical action is nothing new for Jim Wright and it follows a longstanding pattern that extends back to Jim Wright’s days in the Family Protection Lobby.  It was blatantly hypocritical back then, just as it remains blatantly hypocritical today. This is the background story to an early example of how Bob Wright and his son Jim Wright, attempted to use similar unethical methods in the 1980s to promote their agenda back then.

Bob Wright’s Failed School Board Candidacy

Jim Wright and Sovereign Grace Ministries

Why Jim Wright Has Issues with Sovereign Grace Ministries

New Covenant Church of Arnold MD, is now an SGM Church

This is the continuation of a series started HERE.

Jim Wright – Sovereign Grace Ministries Ties?

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Jim and Marianne Wright, Crossroad Junction, Nathan’s Voice, Fulcrum Ministries, Fulcrum Express and Fulcrum Forum, or whatever name de jour Jim Wright tries to re-identify himself as, it is that if Jim Wright has an issue with someone or some organization, that will be the basis of his taking aim and attacking with a whole litany of personal and ridiculous accusations.  This has included his last two institutional Churches in Manassas, VA which he left in the midst of conflict with Church leadership and charges of sexual impropriety, and in the case of the second church was actually formally excommunicated following another litany of incredibly ridiculous charges of financial impropriety.

Another organization that Jim Wright attacks regularly is Sovereign Grace Ministries which I thought must have been because it was in the local news in Northern Virginia and Maryland and was a convenient target because it does have some legitimate issues of sexual abuse in the past.  Jim Wright loves to cite stories in the news or of court issues related to Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM) and then with no real basis for comparison to then cite whomever else he’s trying to attack in the same breath as if there’s some real connection there.

As is usually the case, there is a connection with SGM in Jim Wright’s world, but it’s with Jim Wright himself and he appears desperate to distance himself from it.  Future articles may take a look at some psychological issues connected with a practice known as “gas-lighting,” of which this is a prime example, but in this instance the connections to Jim Wright were pretty easy to find and, of course, desperately covered up by Jim Wright as he seeks to redefine himself away from his real historical roots.

Sovereign Grace Ministries and the Shepherding Movement

Jim Wright – Organic Church?

Jim Wright’s Misrepresentation of His Past

His Parents and Organic Church

This is an article in a continuing series started HERE.

For the past few years, Jim Wright has been holding forth on Facebook (before the Crossroad Junction Facebook Page operated by Jim and Marianne Wright was shut down by Facebook for Multiple Community Guideline Violations), the internet and his blog site with the claim that his parents, Bob and Mary Jane Wright, were pioneers in “Organic Church.”  Jim Wright bases his own claim of “leadership” as an “elder” in Organic Church in great measure upon his proclaimed heritage through his parents whose work he claims to be carrying on.

This is a heart-warming story.  It would be even more heart-warming if it were true.  As has been demonstrated on this blog time and time again however, Jim Wright is promoting stories that twist the truth and are often gross exaggerations and often, as in this case I believe, outright lies.

Shepherding Movement

Jim Wright’s Tainted Reputation

Annapolis Capitol Editorial

Jim Wright’s Reputation in Maryland

Jim Wright routinely refers to himself as something of a respected crusader from the 1980s.  He’s claimed to have been the subject of books and articles outlining his groundbreaking work in this area.  It all sounds marvelous until you actually research and see what he did and what was said about him.

As has been noted in a series of posts which starts HERE, which was started just following Jim and Marianne Wright’s Facebook Page being deleted by Facebook after multiple Community Guideline Violations, all Jim Wright really was in the 1980s was a young man placed in a position by his father in what appears to have been an act of nepotism and control to try and manage a family based “empire” of organizations which all circled around Bob Wright at the time.  Jim Wright today attempts to do the same thing with his own stable of LLC corporations and holding corporations and his unsubstantiated claims to be part of a “vast network of organic churches in Northern Virginia.”  It’s nothing new for Jim.  It’s a pretty established deceptive pattern.

Annapolis Capitol Editorial March 30, 1982

Family Protection Lobby and Related Scandals

Multiple Ensuing Scandals Involving the Wrights

From Gingerbread Men to Beyond

As was noted in previous articles in this series which starts HERE and referenced in Annapolis Capital Newspaper articles at the time, the short term association of the Wrights with the Moral Majority before the National Organization kicked out their embarrassing chapter, was also in part, a move by the Wrights to maintain control over the contributions.  The Moral Majority national office apparently processed the contributions and there was concern on the part of the local chapter that not all funds were being returned for direct use and control at the local level.  Given that much of the base for the Maryland Chapter was evidently tied into the New Covenant Churches of Maryland of which Bob Wright was the President, this was clearly not an acceptable situation and it’s my opinion that the separation of organizations would have likely occurred anyway, just over this issue, but as the local chapter had made the National Organization a laughing stock in the media, things moved that much more quickly.

The Republican Party Connection

From Moral Majority to Family Protection Lobby

Follow the Money

New Covenant Churches and the Family Protection Lobby

(This article is the third in a series demonstrating the ties of the Maryland Moral Majority, the Family Protection Lobby, the New Covenant Churches of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, to the Wright Family and their connection with the Shepherding Movement.  The first article is HERE.)

As a quick recap, the Moral Majority of Maryland was formed in June of 1980, with Bob Wright as the Vice-Chair of the organization.  Jim Wright was appointed as the Director of the organization despite the fact that he was in his early 20s and had only graduated recently with a degree in Biology.  The Maryland Chapter of the Moral Majority was the 48th to form, no doubt because the state of Maryland was overwhelmingly Democrat and the perceived practical influence was not seen as very high.  The National Organization however, surely expected more than being made a National Laughingstock in the press with the decision of Jim Wright to make an issue of “Pornographic Gingerbread Men” in a local bakery.

Smaller Scope – Greater Control