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Lausanne apology for speaker remarks on Israel-Gaza, dispensational eschatology risks stirring greater controversy

Lausanne apology for speaker remarks on Israel-Gaza, dispensational eschatology risks stirring greater controversy

On Wednesday, September 25, the Lausanne Movement issued an official apology for remarks by Ruth Padilla DeBorst during a Monday evening session where she spoke about the war in Gaza and blamed certain people for using dispensational eschatology as an excuse for violence. The apology inadvertently created further controversy, however, as some questioned why these but not other comments were deemed offensive and called on participants of such global events to behave like “grown-ups”

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