Dale Partridge

Dale James Partridge (born April 10, 1985) is an American Reformed Christian theologian, pastor and author. He currently serves as the lead teaching pastor at King's Way Church in Prescott, Arizona. He is also the President of Relearn.org and Founder of Reformation Seminary.

Early life and education

Partridge grew up in Southern California, where he attended high school and started several businesses in his late teens, including a personal training and massage therapy business. In 2018, Partridge enrolled at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, where he earned a graduate certificate in Theology.

Career

In his early days, Partridge pursued a baseball career which ended early due to an arm injury. He then switched to entrepreneurship, and eventually founded Thresh Hold Rock Climbing Gym in Riverside, California, in 2005. In 2011, Partridge founded the e-commerce websites Sevenly.org and in 2018, StartupCamp.com.

At Sevenly, he experimented with social/charitable cause-based business ecosystems by using art and fashion to raise funds and awareness for a new charity every week. In 2012, the business model of Sevenly was featured by ''Entrepreneur'' magazine.

Partridge has been featured in various business and editorial publications, including the cover of ''Entrepreneur'' and '' Inc'' magazines, Mashable.com, ''Forbes'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', and ''People'' magazine. He has also appeared on FOX News, and ''Today''.

Prior to entering into the ministry, Partridge was a business author. He wrote ''People over Profit'' published by Thomas Nelson, which became ''Wall Street Journal'' bestseller. The premise of this book was presented in his TEDx talk given in 2015. Also published by Thomas Nelson were Partridge's ''Launch Your Dream and Saved from Success''.

He left the business world in 2017 to pursue a career in ministry.

Ministry

Partridge leads a digital ministry, Relearn.org. that is focused on biblical and theological literacy in the church. In addition, Partridge hosts a weekly podcast, ''Real Christianity''.

In 2015, on the TV show ''Good Morning America'', Partridge revealed that his views on women's leggings influenced his wife to discard it from her wardrobe.

In 2019, he argued against electing people with mental illnesses to church leadership positions after his friend and fellow pastor committed suicide.

Partridge has also been a voice against what he perceives as the influence of what he calls the "transgender movement" on children. In 2022, as an alternative to Drag Queen Story Hour, Partridge hosted “Pastor Story Hour” in his Arizona hometown. That same year, he released a children's book, ''Jesus and My Gender'' where Partridge affirms what he sees as the biblical model for gender. He has also been outspoken about traditional male and female roles in the church, as well as a proponent for headcoverings for women during worship. In 2023, he became senior pastor at King's Way Church in Prescott, Arizona, which holds to the Westminster Confession of Faith.

Partridge has been known to plagiarize quotes by others, such as by Martin Luther King, Jr., Ricky Martin, Ron Finley, and John Wooden, by posting them without proper attribution or citation. Patridge has publicly admitted to and apologized for past plagiarism, attributing his actions to a combination of "past immaturity" and " ailureto be careful" stemming from his former belief in "'the uncopyright movement,' which put forth the idea that 'all ideas are God's ideas.'"

Partridge said that "before I found faith in Christ, specifically between 2010 and 2014, I would thoughtlessly share tweets and social media posts without acknowledging the original source, giving people the impression that their words were mine." He maintains that while he "stopped this blatant form of plagiarism after isconversion in late 2014, estruggled with more subtle forms of plagiarism until 2018-2019," whereby he would "unintentionally reproduce short phrases without proper citation or add a sentence into a podcast from my research notes without mentioning the source." Despite Partridge's claims that he stopped intentionally plagiarizing quotes on social media in 2014, examples of unattributed standalone quotes can be found in his social media posts as recently as 2019.

As of 2023, he maintains that he has "made significant changes to ispublishing process to ensure proper citations, multiple rounds of third-party editing (especially for books), and the use of plagiarism detection software to catch any unintentional plagiarism."

In 2024, Partridge made a series of tweets in which he argued that "in a Christian marriage, a wife should vote according to her husband’s direction."

Personal life

In 2015, the owner of the land neighboring the property owned by Dale Patridge and his wife filed a lawsuit against them in Deschutes County Circuit Court. She alleged that they "willfully cut down 'ancient' juniper trees on her property to improve their view" and requested $150,000 in damages. The plaintiff's lawyer alleged, "It's not just like they're on the property line. They're 250, 300 feet onto my client's property." In a response statement, Dale Partridge said that he was "really shocked" and that "the whole truth ouldeventually come out." He declined to elaborate further, stating that he had been "instructed to keep iswords for the courtroom.' Later, in 2016, the lawsuit was settled out of court.

Publications

*Partridge, Dale. (2015), ''People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful'', Nashville, Thomas Nelson Publishing.
*Partridge, Dale. (2017), ''Launch Your Dream: A 30-Day Plan for Turning Your Passion into Your Profession'', Nashville, Thomas Nelson Publishing.
* Partridge, Dale. (2018), ''Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture's Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life'', Nashville, Thomas Nelson Publishing.
* Partridge, Dale. (2019), ''Real Christianity: How to Be Bold for Christ In a Culture of Darkness'', Prescott, Arizona, Relearn Press.
* Partridge, Dale. (2021), ''How We Do House Church: The Biblical Doctrines and Convictions of Reformation Fellowship'', Prescott, Arizona, Relearn Press.
* Partridge, Dale. (2022), ''The Manliness of Christ: How the Masculinity of Jesus Eradicates Effeminate Christianity'', Prescott, Arizona, Relearn Press.
* Partridge, Dale. (2022), ''The Ground of Good Theology: A Beginner's Guide for the Faithful Study of God'', Prescott, Arizona, Relearn Press.
* Partridge, Dale. (2022), ''Jesus and My Gender: Affirming Your Child's God-Given Gender'', Prescott, Arizona, Relearn Press.
* Partridge, Dale. (2023), ''A Cover for Glory: A Biblical Defense for Headcoverings'', Prescott, Arizona, Relearn Press.

References

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1985 births
Living people
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century evangelicals
American Evangelical writers
American male non-fiction writers
American religious writers
American self-help writers
Western Seminary alumni