The Walter Martin and CRI Connection

There is a website run by Kevin and Jill Rische. Jill is the daughter of Dr. Walter Martin, author of The Kingdom of Cults and founder of CRI who passed away in 1989. It appears that several different people have had issue with CRI and Hank Hannegraaf as far back as 1990. This is not a pretty read.

Charges of plagiarism, lying and employee mistreatment are outlined as far back as 1990. It strikes me that there is an abundance of accusations in the form of "he said, she said" and letters from lawyers. Because of time limitations, I've yet to see anything in CRI's defense, so it isn't time to form an opinion. Sadly, this has occurred in the public eye, including an article in the LA Times.

Couldn't differences in ministry or philosophy be resolved with far less acrimony and divisiveness?