Talk:Andy Stanley

Notability

A sampling of media coverage:

• "Andy Stanley To Visit Calvary". The Charlotte Observer. 21 October 1995. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• "Community of Faith: Pastor's book urges setting a destination". The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. 18 November 1999. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• "$40 million church 'office' set in Buckhead". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 6 May 2005. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• Jonsson, Patrik (17 May 2006). "'Godcasting:' Love that new-time religion". USA Today. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• Grossman, Cathy Lynn (12 May 2010). "Video parody riffs on megachurch modern worship". USA Today. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• "Jakes, Caldwell, Wuerl join inaugural services". USA Today. 16 January 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
  • Stanley one of 2 evangelical ministers participating in "an interfaith National Prayer Service ... held in the National Cathedral to cap the [Obama] inauguration, featuring Roman Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu clergy, along with pastors from mainline Protestant, evangelical and Orthodox Christian traditions."
• "The Best Question Ever by Andy Stanley". ZDNet. 22 February 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• Reed, Eric (27 March 2006). "Leader's Insight: Is Ministry Leadership Different?". Christianity Today. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• "Leader's Insight: Get-It-Done Leadership". Christianity Today. 28 May 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• Quinn, Christopher (2 May 2009). "Keeping the faith, in their way". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• Poole, Shelia M. (12 November 2010). "Megachurches: Supersizing faith". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• "Salvation by satellite: Megachurches spin off congregations as leaders focus on size, salesmanship". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 28 November 2004. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• Grossman, Cathy Lynn (14 September 2010). "When it comes to worship, does size count?". USA Today. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
  • Stanley started and currently leads North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. With 24,000+ members, it ranked as the second largest church in the United States in 2010.

There are many more articles out there; this is just a sample.

I have omitted the numerous references to his parents' very public marital problems into which he was dragged. The Rev. Charles Stanley, his father, served two terms as the President of the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Andy Stanley was an adult when this happened and made public statements on the issue; any material added to the article on that topic should be handled carefully with an eye to relevance and our Biographies of Living People Policy.
--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:05, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Homosexuality and The Shack

I just removed some recent additions (I missed them a few weeks ago), which are rather esoteric and primarily blog-sourced. Al Mohler's blog entry and Tim Challies' article are both self-published sources and not allowed in Biographies of Living Persons. Neither of these "controversies" (to use the term very loosely) is descriptive of Stanley's "beliefs" (a section created to house these), and thus also have issues with undue weight, along with notability.--Lyonscc (talk) 18:24, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

• Here is a non blog article regarding Andy Stanley and the homosexuality controversy that received a lot of attention: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/mayweb-only/andy-stanley-homosexuality.html Buytruth (talk) 18:19, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

At this point, though, there are no verifiable sources with statements from Stanley affirming homosexuality as being congruent with Christian belief. The article in question is about Stanley using an illustration with a divorced gay man in it in which he (Stanley) focused on the divorce/adultery involved. The "controversy" (if one existed) was based on a non-statement (the perceived failure of Stanley to attack homosexual practice when it would have been easy to do so), and its inclusion in Wikipedia, at this point, would be Original Research, in which readers would be required to infer, from silence, that Stanley affirms homosexuality. Unless you've got a positive affirmation of homosexuality in a verifiable source, this really isn't notable, and attributing it to him as a belief in a new section about "beliefs" is just hearsay. With Biographies of Living Persons, there is a high bar for inclusion of controversial material, and a single opinion piece from a secondary source, critical of a non-statement doesn't really fit that bill.--Lyonscc (talk) 23:19, 7 December 2012 (UTC)