Wretched Radio on Pulpit Plagiarism

Back in the Spring of 2009 an example of Pulpit Plagiarism made waves around the blog-o-sphere.

Earlier that year a somewhat well-known pastor, Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv, told a personal story about an experience he had at VBS as a child. A short while later a lesser-known pastor, Tadd Grandstaff, shared the exact same life experience. He got caught plagiarizing.

Now I would show you the clips, but as luck would have it, all the original sources have been removed from the Internet. But as certain Pulpit Plagiarizers should know by now, nothing ever gets completely removed from the Internet. Here are just a few of the popular blogs that covered the issue in 2009.

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In addition, Todd Friel from Wretched Radio discussed it on his podcast which includes audio from the sermons in question HERE.

Around that same time, Pirate Christian Radio covered the controversy and followed up with Grandstaff's non-apology apology. You can listen to those clips below.


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Interestingly enough, this is apparently not the first time Grandstaff has been caught plagiarizing! In 2007 he wrote this blog article criticizing some of the "stupid people" who confronted him about stealing the words and ideas of other and passing them off as his own. You can read that gem HERE.