[1] He coined and founded the approach of “purpose-guided education” in 1997 while leading the implementation of student success programs at Indiana Wesleyan University.
[13] He co-authored the six-episode TV docuseries (and book), Inexplicable: How Christianity Spread to the Ends of the Earth (TBN, 2020, hosted by Dennis Haysbert).
[1] Archived 2019-07-08 at the Wayback Machine In 2021, Pattengale received the Indiana Wesleyan Alumni World Changer Award, in recognition of having made a significant difference in the field of higher learning.
[23] Within his dozens of books and hundreds of news columns[24] are references to his impoverished and adventurous childhood in Buck Creek, Indiana.
[28] This fragment contained portions of six verses from the first chapter of the Gospel of Mark, and was designated 𝔓137 in the standard classification of New Testament papyri.
In the July/August 2019 issue of Christianity Today, Jerry Pattengale wrote an article in which he published for the first time his own perspectives on the 'First Century Mark' Saga.
According to Pattengale, he had undertaken due diligence in showing images of the four fragments to selected New Testament textual scholars, including Daniel B. Wallace, subject to their signing non-disclosure agreements in accordance with Obbink's stipulations; and purchase was eventually finalised, with the fragments agreed to remain in Obbink's possession for research prior to publication.
It was not until a gala dinner in November 2017, celebrating the opening of the Museum of the Bible, that Pattengale realised that the First Century Mark fragment had been the property of the Egypt Exploration Society all along, and consequently had never legitimately been offered for sale.