Several months ago I was asked to write an article on heresy for the “What Presbyterians Believe Series” in Presbyterians Today.
When the article appeared this week I was surprised and dismayed to discover that the opening two paragraphs of the published article were so clearly not my work that I have had to take the unprecedented step (unprecedented for me at least) of formally distancing myself from several key aspects of an article that appears under my name.
In some thirty years of writing for church publications, this is the first time I have ever had to do this. I have asked the magazine to retract these paragraphs and to publish what I actually wrote because the editors’ changes do not reflect my theology…click here to read more
