Tullian Tchividjian Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Early life and education=== William Graham Tullian Tchividjian, whose third given name is shortened from his namesake, the theologian of antiquity, [[Tertullian]],<ref name=DavisSFSS090130>{{cite news|last=Davis|first=James D.|title=Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church Chooses Pastor|work=[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]]|date= January 19, 2009 | url = http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-coralridge0118,0,7957788.story |access-date=January 30, 2009 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090120032300/http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-coralridge0118,0,7957788.story |archive-date= January 20, 2009 | quote = [Quote:] Sunday's announcement capped a year of work by Coral Ridge's 15-member Pulpit Nominating Committee, which considered 150 to 175 ministers in more than 15 states, plus other countries. / Coral Ridge actually approached Tchividjian three times, the minister said. First was in May for the pastorate alone. / The second time, from summer to the end of September, the churches discussed merger, but New City backed away, unsure of the complexities, Tchividjian said. / The committee approached him again just before Christmas and got a warmer reception. "When something comes around a third time, we felt God could be doing something, and we should start asking about it," he said.}}</ref> was born on July 13, 1972,<ref name=E /> in [[Jacksonville, Florida]].<ref name=DavisSFSS090130/> He is the middle of seven children born to Stephan Tchividjian, a psychologist of Swiss and Armenian ancestry, and Gigi Graham, the eldest daughter of [[Billy Graham]] and [[Ruth Graham]].<ref name=DavisSFSS090130/> Through his mother, he is a nephew of evangelists [[Franklin Graham]] and [[Anne Graham Lotz]].<ref name=E /><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/obituaries/billy-graham-dead.html New York Times, ''Billy Graham, 99, dies'', article by Laurie Goodstein dated February 21, 2018]</ref> Tchividjian's older brother, Basyle "Boz" Tchividjian, is a former Professor of Law at [[Liberty University School of Law]] in [[Lynchburg, Virginia|Lynchburg]], Virginia, and the founder and former CEO of [[Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment]] (GRACE).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://churchleaders.com/news/367605-basyle-tchividjian-grace-liberty-prosecute.html|title=Basyle Tchividjian Leaving GRACE and Liberty to Prosecute full time|website=Church Leaders|date=16 December 2019 |language=en|access-date=2020-10-23}}</ref> Tchividjian attended the Westminster Academy, an educational ministry of [[Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church]], [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]], for a time, but is described as having "dropped out during a period of rebellion - sinking into South Florida's 'pleasure-saturated culture' ... then [coming] to a personal faith in Jesus at the age of 21 and return[ing] to a Christian lifestyle."<ref name=DavisSFSS090130/> In this same rough time frame, he attended and graduated from [[Columbia International University]], in [[Columbia, South Carolina]], with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in philosophy in 1997.<ref name=staugustine>{{cite web|url=https://www.staugustine.com/news/florida-news/2015-08-08/tullian-tchividjian-breaks-silence-about-affair|title=Tullian Tchividjian breaks silence about affair|work=The St. Augustine Record|date=Aug 8, 2015|first=Monique O. |last=Madan|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref> Tchividjian subsequently earned an M.Div. degree at [[Reformed Theological Seminary]] in [[Orlando]] in 2001,<ref name=staugustine /> and was ordained in the [[Presbyterian Church in America]] (PCA) denomination in 2001.<ref name=GC>[https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/interview-with-tullian-tchividjian/ Gospel Coalition website, ''An Interview with Tullian Tchividjian'', article by Justin Taylor dated August 31, 2007]</ref><ref name=GV>[https://gracevalley.org/teaching/the-spreading-plague-of-antinomianism-a-critique-of-tullian-tchividjians-one-way-love/ Grace Valley Christian Center website, ''The Spreading Plague of Antinomianism: A Critique of Tullian Tchividjian’s One Way Love'', article by Gregory Perry dated November 11, 2015]</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page