Investigation confirms Orange founder Reggie Joiner sexually abused six women
The board of reThink Group, parent company of Orange, said the investigation confirmed founder Reggie Joiner is guilty of sexual misconduct.
Victims include four women who worked for Joiner, according to the report, and two who were under his pastoral care at North Point Community Church. Joiner cofounded the metro Atlanta megachurch with Pastor Andy Stanley.
One of the women at the church was 19 when the abuse began, the statement said.
ReThink called the findings “heartbreaking.”
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“The investigative findings have left us grieving for those who experienced pain, stress and confusion during their time with reThink,” the board said. “We recognize that there was a betrayal of trust placed in the organization, and most importantly, in its leaders.”
ReThink is not releasing the full investigation done by the law firm Castañeda + Heidelman LLP, citing the need to protect confidentiality. The summary offers few details about the sexual abuse, spending more time reporting on victims willingness to cooperate with the investigation.
The summary statement was posted as an update to a statement reThink posted on its mostly defunct website the Friday before Thanksgiving Day 2025. News of the update was first reported by Ministry Watch on June 8.
‘Zero accountability for the board’
Victims and whistleblowers told the Roys Report (RR) the timing seemed designed to avoid attention and evade responsibility.
“It does not apologize or center the victims or demonstrate any kind of victim awareness at all,” said whistleblower Kim Nunes, a former project manager for Orange. “There’s zero accountability for the board. This is what I expected, but there was one percent of me that was hoping the right thing would be done.”
Board members did not respond to emails from the RR. A spokesperson anonymously declined to answer further questions.
“The statement regarding the third-party investigation was published in November 2025 and has been available continuously at www.rethinkgroup.org for the past seven months,” the unsigned email to RR said. “No additional statements have been made or are planned.”
According to reThink’s November 21 statement, Joiner concealed his sexual misconduct, and no one on the board knew or could have known what was happening.
The board notes the nonprofit did not have written policies about sexual harassment, a professional human resources department or procedures for reporting misconduct. The statement does not apologize for these oversights.
The board instead expresses hope that the “painful lessons” will be useful to others.
“Our prayer is that the truth revealed here will be a step toward healing for those who have suffered, and a reminder to all of us that leadership is a sacred trust, never to be taken lightly,” the statement said. “This can serve as an opportunity for accountability, growth, and change.”
A former employee who spoke to investigators said it was sad the board didn’t take the opportunity it had to be accountable.
“I honestly feel the whole thing was sort of a joke,” she told the RR, speaking on condition of anonymity, citing mental health concerns. “All of the questions we had, it was like, ‘Wait for the report.’ When the report came out, it was nothing.”
Curriculum was widely endorsed
Joiner founded the organization that became reThink and Orange in 2001 while still serving as executive director of family ministry at North Point. He went out on his own in 2006, producing youth group curricula that was widely and quickly adopted by children’s ministries across the country.
ReThink’s annual revenue grew from $168,500 in 2001 to more than $4 million in five years. And it kept growing. In 2024, when accusations of sexual abuse were made public, the Georgia-based nonprofit brought in $24 million.
The reThink curricula covered every age group from preschool to high school. For preschoolers, “Let’s Fly” taught Christ-like compassion. For older kids, there was “Table of Context,” a Bible study presented as “ancient words for modern times,” and “GOAT,” teaching teens to become “the greatest” with Jesus’ teachings about sacrifice and servant leadership.
When Joiner wrote a book articulating his ideas for getting churches and families to work together to develop children’s faith, it was widely endorsed by evangelical megachurch leaders.
Stanley called it a “paradigm shift” and a “brand-new approach to capturing the hearts and imaginations of this generation’s parents and kids.”
Craig Groeschel, pastor of Life.Church, said “Reggie Joiner’s ideas … will empower and motivate Christian leaders around the world to rethink how the church and families can and should work together.” Sue Miller, a former director of children’s ministries at Willow Creek Community Church, praised the book as a “must read” and “just what we all need to strategically partner with parents.”
‘Compliance and silence’
While the company grew, Joiner was grooming and manipulating women into sex. One woman, in an anonymous statement, said she was “fully conditioned … to compliance and silence.” When Joiner kissed her, she said, it “felt like being shoved down a dark tunnel slide.”
Another victim has previously said she was prepared to “protect Reggie at all costs,” and “labored under the belief that protecting Reggie was the only way to protect Orange.”
In 2025, Joiner told investigators that he believed all the relationships were consensual — admitting only that one, with a teenage girl in his church, involved abuse.
Georgia law prohibits employers from sexual harassing employees. The legal definition includes any “conduct of a sexual nature” that employees are asked to accept, “implicitly or explicitly,” as a “term or condition of work.”
Georgia also passed a law in May criminalizing clergy sexual abuse. The law prohibits ministers from claiming consent as a defense The behavior that many ministers have called “an affair” or an “inappropriate relationship” is now a felony, punishable by up to 25 years in prison.
Joiner has not been charged with any crime. He reportedly still lives in Atlanta.
ReThink remains open but is not producing any more materials. The organization’s suburban Atlanta office now appears to be occupied by a dentist.
Material still for sale
The existing curricula and the subsidiary company Orange were acquired in 2024 by the Amazing Life Foundation. The nonprofit, founded at that time, has revamped some of the material and rebranded Orange’s annual conference.
Malachi Boyuls, president of Amazing Life, told the RR that the company has “no preexisting or ongoing relationship” with Joiner, reThink or anyone in leadership at reThink.
Boyuls declined to answer any questions about royalty payments.
According to the last 10 years of available tax records, reThink was paying between $1 million and $3 million in royalties per year. Some of that money went to Joiner, who also earned a salary from reThink.
Victims and whistleblowers who spoke to the RR said everything still feels unresolved. Instead of stating what happened definitively and for the record, the board’s statement leaves much cloaked in secrecy, they said.
“I wish that more would come out,” a former employee told the RR. “I want the truth to be out there. But I’ve lost hope.”
ICC prosecutor who charged that Israel committed ‘war crimes’ had ‘nonconsensual sexual contact’ with aide
International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan in March 2024 filed applications for warrants of arrest for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. He claimed that Israel had committed “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity.” Later, when he faced these claims about his behavior, some suggested that he leveled these baseless charges against Israel so as to distract from his own woes. That idea has not been disproven.
Also, Karim Khan appears to be following in the footsteps of Tariq Ramadan. Could they be reading the same book.
ICC suspends its British chief prosecutor Karim Khan over claims of sexual misconduct
by Imogen Garfinkel, Daily Mail, June 9, 2026:
The International Criminal Court has suspended its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, over claims of sexual misconduct in an unprecedented decision.Khan, the British barrister who sought the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes in Gaza, stood down from his post on Monday after the court’s oversight body referred him for disciplinary proceedings.
The 56-year-old is facing allegations of sexual misconduct with a female aide, in a scandal that has dragged on for more than two years.
He has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing.
A final decision on Khan’s fate is now up to the Assembly of States Parties, the body that oversees the ICC, which will hold a special session to decide if Khan can remain in his job at the global court.
The Bureau of the Assembly of States parties – the executive committee of the court’s oversight body – said in a statement that it based its decision ‘on the report of an investigation undertaken by the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), the underlying evidence, the advice of an ad hoc Panel of judicial experts, and written submissions’.
It added that Khan’s suspension pending the assembly meeting ‘is not an indication of the final outcome’.
The UN investigation found evidence that Khan had ‘nonconsensual sexual contact with (the aide) in his office, at his private residence, and whilst on mission’…
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