Dale Partridge

Written by COURTNEY HUGGINS

We first watched Dale with interest when we were first Reforming in our faith, but we moved away from him after a short while because something was off to us. We couldn’t tell what it was so we were not going to speak against him publicly unless something came to light about him. We also knew that there were plenty of other proven godly men that we could learn from, most importantly elders in the local church.

It turns out Dale Partridge is one we would advise avoiding. Below you will find the link to all of the research Nick Campbell from Christ is the Cure has done on him. It is extremely thorough. This was all sparked by claims Dale Partridge was making about his education and it unfolded on Twitter/X where not everyone had the opportunity to see it so many know very little about this.

Interestingly enough, Dale Partridge was originally slated to speak at the Right Response Conference that happened in early 2024. He had already appeared at a Right Response conference as a speaker with Joel Webbon and James White in May 2023.

But after these things transpired, we noticed he was no longer listed as a speaker for the conference featuring Joel Webbon, Doug Wilson, and others. Joel Webbon, to our best knowledge never addressed this situation with Dale. We did find that the videos showing Dale speaking at the 2023 Right Response Conference have been changed to “unlisted” on YouTube, but not made private. We would like to point out a lack of discernment and speaking out on Joel Webbon’s part that we find troubling. Dale Partridge was platformed by him. This makes it seem that Joel believed him to be somewhat of a expert in the things they were discussing, but the fact is that Dale had flip flopped on many issues rather recently which should have bare minimum given him pause. The lack of discernment on Joel Webbon’s part and the fact that we couldn’t find where he had ever called Dale Partridge to repent is concerning and we wanted to add this to the article.

So without further ado, here is the link to the research. At the moment it is the only link on this page, but knowing how thorough Nick is and how important this subject is as wolves arise within the church and not easily spotted even by the elect at times, we wanted to share this so others could have access and read it for themselves.

Research by Nick Campbell of Christ is the Cure on Dale Partridge: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1APKkX_KEk-DuqbHHUW-Cf-wVnt9xTPVT/view?usp=drivesdk

Update: October 2026

When we first wrote this post, we were still hoping Dale might step back, take stock, and repent. That hasn't happened. Instead, things have gotten worse, and we felt we needed to update this for anyone still following him.

Since 2024, Dale has changed churches and confessions again. When he planted King's Way in Prescott, Arizona in 2023, the church held to the Westminster Confession of Faith. Today his own website describes King's Way as "Reformed in doctrine, Anglican in worship," holding to the Thirty-Nine Articles with the Book of Common Prayer. That's a Presbyterian confession traded for an Anglican one, with no public explanation we could find for the move. Men who keep shifting confessions and affiliations while keeping their pulpits are not showing the steadiness Scripture requires of elders.

Then came the summer of 2026, and this is the part that grieved us most. Dale preached a sermon series on Genesis 9, the curse of Ham, teaching that Noah's sons map onto "three macro-races of humanity," with the descendants of Ham (who he identifies as African peoples and some from India) divinely assigned to subordination under the descendants of Shem and Japheth. His own words, as quoted in the Christian Post: "The Hammites have been assigned a civilizational station of subordination and dependence," and his prescription is "to return to Christian (white) colonization of Africa."

He has also said publicly that interracial marriages are "not the ideal," his own marriage included (his wife is Mexican-American). That drew rebukes from men like Owen Strachan, Anthony Bradley, and Mike Cosper. We don't say this lightly: this is kinism, and kinism is racism dressed in theology. It has no place in the church.

Alongside all of this, Dale now openly advocates for Christian nationalism. His own website says so plainly. He has said that freedom of religion is "a really bad idea" and that he doesn't want it because he doesn't think Jesus wants it. He argues that "heritage Americans, rooted in our Western European Christian founding stock, must receive priority." He has a book coming that argues for repealing the 19th Amendment in favor of household voting.

Here's where we land on all of this. We believe Christians should be good citizens. That means knowing our rights and using them, voting, speaking up, loving our neighbors through our civic life. But we are not called to obsess over building a theocratic nation, and history bears out that whenever the church has gotten that entangled with political power, it has ended badly. Every single time.

And then there's the standard we hold everyone to, including men we once respected. When the credential controversy broke in 2024, Dale did not step down. He did not submit to church discipline or press pause on his ministry. He kept his pulpit and built a bigger platform: a podcast, a seminary, a book, a network. Now to be clear, lying about your credentials isn't heresy, but it is disqualifying all the same. An elder must be above reproach. And the principle holds either way: when a brother truly repents, we welcome him with open arms. But repentance means stepping down, not rebranding. A man who will not step down when disqualified has disqualified himself from ever being an elder. We hold Steve Lawson to a similar standard, and we hold Dale Partridge to it too.

We take no joy in writing any of this. We pray Dale repents, truly repents, and we pray for the people sitting under his teaching.

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