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Episode 158: Pastors Plagiarizing: An Example Using Josh Howerton--with Scot McKnight's commentary

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Sheila Gregoire

Marriage, Social Sciences, Science, Relationships, Sex, Christianity, Wife, Religion & Spirituality, Mother, Society & Culture, Advice, Family

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On Plagiarism:

Scot McKnight's book A Church Called TOV

https://amzn.to/3cRXoDM

Scot McKnight's New Testament Everyday Bible Study Series:

https://amzn.to/3x3CBUV

Scot McKnight's previous podcast with us:

https://baremarriage.com/2021/04/podcast-a-church-called-tov-and-matthew-18/

Warren Throckmorton on Mark Driscoll's apparent plagiarism:

https://wthrockmorton.com/2014/03/03/mark-driscolls-tim-keller-remix-is-this-plagiarism/

David Dzimianski on Tim Keller's apparent plagiarism:

https://twitter.com/DavidDzimianski/status/1557790921101565952

Aaron New on Tim Clinton's history of Plagiarism:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1038574734697476097.html

Christine Caine's plagiarism:

https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/10/11/zondervan-settles-plagiarism-case-involving-christine-caine-without-apology/

Josh Howerton's Twitter Threads:

Original Twitter Thread (long) about how plagiarism by pastors is fine:

https://twitter.com/howertonjosh/status/1410306470726471686?lang=en

More recent Tweet about ethics of using someone's material without naming them if you disagree with them:

https://twitter.com/howertonjosh/status/1504120148818542595

Articles on Controversy with Josh Howerton and Andy Wood

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2022/08/im-sorry-but-youve-been-canceled/

Article Explaining Andy Wood controversy with Mark Driscoll

https://julieroys.com/andy-wood-apologizes-driscoll-interview-critics-dont-buy/

Andy Stanley's book The New Rules of Love, Sex and Dating:

https://amzn.to/3erUDcQ

YouTube sermon where Andy Stanley goes over the central points of this book, which Josh Howerton seems to have used:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIOMNzz9Srw (start at around 22:00)

Steven Furtick sermon with "two halves don't make a whole":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu6E7SY-QJE (start around 6:30)

Josh Howerton sermon where he says arguing with him is like arguing with God:

https://subsplash.com/lakepointe

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregoer from Bear Marriage.com.

0:15.0

Yes, no longer to Love Honor and Vaccom.

0:18.0

Yes, and I am joined by my daughter Rebecca Lindenbach.

0:21.0

Co-author of the Great Sex Rescue and of our upcoming book She Deserves Better,

0:25.6

and co-host of the podcast and most of all mother of my wonderful grandchildren.

0:28.9

Most of all, yes.

0:29.9

Yes, absolutely.

0:31.3

And we have a bit of a different podcast today.

0:33.7

Yes, we do.

0:34.5

Because I know that normally we talk about healthy,

0:37.4

evidence-based biblical advice for your marriage and sex life.

0:41.1

But today I actually want to talk about plagiarism from the pulpit.

0:44.0

Yeah, and I mean it seems a little bit different, but I think this actually fits in our overall kind of groove of just, you know, calling the church to do better. To to do better and so I want to tell you a little bit of a story of how this happened and how I learned about this.

1:00.0

So a couple of weeks ago, I was involved in some conversations on Twitter about Josh

1:07.1

Howerton. So Josh Howerton is a senior pastor at Lake Point Church, which is in Rockwall,

1:11.2

Texas. It's got six different campuses I think there's

1:13.8

like tens and tens of thousands of people who go every weekend so it's a very

1:17.6

large mega church southern Baptist mega church and I was concerned because there is this is a convoluted story that isn't really part of this

1:26.9

podcast.

1:27.9

I just want to let you know how this all started.

1:29.9

Andy Wood is the incoming pastor at Saddleback.

1:32.3

He's replacing Rick Warren and there have been

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