The Wartburg Watch

The Wartburg Watch
Type of site
Blog
OwnerDarlene "Dee" Parsons
URLhttps://thewartburgwatch.com
Launched2009; 16 years ago (2009)

The Wartburg Watch is a blog originally written by two American Christians, Darlene "Dee" Parsons, and Wanda "Deb" Martin. It was founded in 2009 and focuses on contentious issues affecting the church, particularly authoritarianism, complementarianism, sexism and spiritual abuse in certain churches, as well as a perceived rise in Calvinist beliefs in "historically" Arminian churches.[1]

The blog has been referenced by major Christian and secular web sites, including the Huffington Post, Christianity Today, Baptist News Global, and Religion News Service.[2][3][4][5] It has been quoted by the Ames Tribune and Seattle Weekly.[6] [7] John Weaver, adjunct professor at Binghamton University, praised the blog in his book The Failure of Evangelical Mental Health Care and indicated that it was a valuable resource to him.[8]

References

  1. ^ The Lily News (2019-06-08). "Meet the bloggers exposing abuse in Protestant churches". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  2. ^ "Why Is a Famous Evangelical Pastor Defending Slavery?". The Huffington Post. 22 April 2013.
  3. ^ "C. J. Mahaney, Joshua Harris Resign from Gospel Coalition after SGM Abuse C... - Gleanings - ChristianityToday.com". Gleanings - ChristianityToday.com.
  4. ^ "Blogger concerned about controversial pastor's SBC ties". Baptist News Global. 28 January 2016.
  5. ^ "Shepherds, shamers, and shunners: The rise of church discipline in America (Part 1)". Religion News Service. 3 June 2015.
  6. ^ Avalos, Hector (5 June 2015). "The Politics of Duggar Family Values". Ames Tribune. Archived from the original on 9 June 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  7. ^ Shapiro, Nina (16 September 2014). "The Reckoning of Mars Hill". Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  8. ^ Weaver, John (3 November 2014). The failure of evangelical mental health care: treatments that harm women, LGBT persons and the mentally ill. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 9780786495948. Especially welcome to me was the Wartburg Watch web site of Dee Parsons and Wanda (Deb) Martin. Their site provided links to primary source articles on virtually every piece of information on modern Calvinism that I ever wanted to hear about, and their research and commentary skills would put almost any mainstream academic to shame. This book would have been a much poorer work without these two women's obsessive devotion to pursuing the truth (page x)