“It is not necessary to take someone aside privately after they have just done something publicly.”

This is as good a place as any to make note of the fact that public controversy is not bound by the rules of confrontation laid out for us in Matthew 18. When Peter sinned at Antioch, Paul rebuked him publicly, face to face (Gal. 2:11), and he did this on the spot. It is not necessary to take someone aside privately after they have just done something publicly. I do not know how many times I have been asked about this. Let’s say I have written critically of a recently published book — ‘Did you contact Tony Campolo privately before you wrote the book review?’
Douglas Wilson

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    2. So does Canon Press, who published the money quote above & below:

      Canon CEO Aaron Rench took issue with how they [Rachel Miller & Valerie Hobbs] went about their work. . . He also says Miller and Hobbs should have informed Canon of their findings before publishing them. (WORLD)

      They have no sense of self-awareness, except that they care only for themselves.

  2. Aaron Rench went way way way, way way WAY. Way beyond the “contact privately first” rule when he tried to submarine Valerie Hobbs. So, did Mr. Rench give Hobbs the courtesy of a call first?

    World Magazine, “A Disputed Primer,” April 30, 2016
    “Rench took the unorthodox step of contacting the dean of the English department of the University of Sheffield, Adam Piette, and accused Hobbs of piracy.”

    “Took the UNORTHODOX STEP.” That’s what Rench did. Because? Oh silly goose. Rules are for everyone else.

    1. When contemplating DW and his minions, the names “Tweedledee and Tweedledum” come to mind.

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