WORLD Magazine has blurbed A Justice Primer, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, and the chair of the Review Committee:
Canon Press has pulled from shelves A Justice Primer, a book by evangelical pastors Douglas Wilson and Randy Booth, after acknowledging significant plagiarism. Blogger Rachel Miller first discovered and documented the passages lifted without citation. This is the second time one of Wilson’s books has faced plagiarism charges. . . .
Wilson — known for his advocacy for classical education, his national debates with atheist Christopher Hitchens, and his provocative punditry on all topics — founded and heads the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC). He pastors Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. Booth is a CREC pastor at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nacogdoches, Texas. . . .
Wilson did not admit any wrongdoing in his statement. . . .
Wilson is already dealing with another controversy about his and the CREC’s handling of two sex abuse cases in his church. This fall, the CREC announced its leadership would do its own investigation into the matter.
Booth is in charge of the investigating committee after Wilson recused himself. Some had expressed concern that Wilson’s co-author could lead a fair inquiry, but Booth underscored the committee’s role was “pastoral.”. . . Continue Reading →
I think the investigating noses at this blog has another line of evidence to follow:
Booth took all the blame for plagiarism. But this book draws, if I am not mistaken, from Wilson blog entries. Look if any of the plagiarized passages came from Wilson’s blog – was it published under his name? How easy it is to find blog entries he may have scrubbed now, with the plagiarism charges, I do not know.
But if he wrote some of it on his blog, it will be easy to show in his blog entries – plagiarized passages that are his, not Booth’s. (He cannot say that he published Booth articles and called it his – that will be plagiarism too.)
You’re definitely onto something. And frankly, why the hell should Doug Wilson continue to be allowed to evade responsibility? He wants to appear blameless and sinless so he can continue seizing what he thinks of as the moral high ground, and he sorely is in need of a good ass-kicking.