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Black Satanist Candidate Faces LA Sheriff Shakedown

By Joseph Laycock

…ormer marine, a former correctional officer, a stand-up comic, and a political candidate. And he’s a Black Satanist who’s spoken publicly about how Christianity is holding the Black community back. Hill also works as a home appraiser and travels in a vehicle with a vanity license plate that reads “4 Satan.” Shortly before the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Hill was confronted by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) for being…

Who Killed Mars Hill Church? There’s One Suspect Evangelicals Simply Aren’t Prepared to Interrogate

By Cavan Concannon

…ing membership in the thousands, Mars Hill was viewed widely among evangelicals as a promising new style of church planting. But the church was also beset by allegations, from insiders and outsiders, that Driscoll and those around him had fostered a culture of abuse. Driscoll resigned when these allegations reached a breaking point for church leaders. Shortly after Driscoll’s departure, the church itself collapsed. In the new podcast The Rise and…

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…if the goal is to truly understand a broader phenomenon within the evangelical church writ large. First, the question that serves as the opening episode’s title suggests that Driscoll is no longer on the evangelical scene, when in fact the disgraced founder and lead pastor of Mars Hill continues to be platformed and preach. He regularly blogged on Patheos from 2017-2020, speaks at Christian events around the country, appears as a guest on secular…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…f while the charges are being investigated. Mars Hill has retained evangelical PR strategist Mark DeMoss, son of the religious right funders behind the Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation and former advisor to the Romney campaign, to assist the church during this time. Earlier this month Driscoll suffered a major career blow when the Acts 29 Network, the all-male coalition of over 500 Reformed evangelical church planters that he co-founded, removed him an…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…raq. The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded by Morris Dees, which has closely watched the rise of right-wing extremism in this country for many decades, declares that threats and incidents of right-wing violence have risen 200% in this past year—unfortunately coinciding with the tenure of the first African-American president in US history. When Chip Berlet, one of this country’s best monitors of right-wing extremism, warned in a perceptive essay…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…overwhelmingly at their annual state meeting to sever ties with the historically important Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville citing the church’s unequivocal commitment to LGBT inclusion. They did so in spite of Crescent Hill’s plea that the church be allowed to remain a part of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. In 2013 Crescent Hill, after a process of congregational discernment, announced that sexual orientation would not be a factor in f…

Religious Freedom May Now Include Discrimination Against Jews and Muslims

By Heron Greenesmith

…s not willing to provide contraception would violate their beliefs. This escalation of exemptions could easily be applied to the child welfare context, and Miracle Hill might reasonably argue that even referring non-Protestants to other agencies violates their faith. While the current coverage of the Miracle Hill exemption doesn’t touch upon the children serviced by the agency, focusing instead on the treatment of potential parents and mentors, th…

Black and white image of Betty and Barney Hill side by side with hands clasped.

From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America

By Susannah Crockford

…ll encountered a bright cigar-shaped light on the highway that moved erratically before appearing to chase them. They fled and then told their story, which later became the first case of claimed alien abduction in the US. In his new book, The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill, historian Matthew Bowman reads their story as a microcosm of social and spiritual tumult during the 1960s. The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil R…

Damn You Auto-Correct: Creationist Edition

By Lauri Lebo

…l adoption process as official textbooks, supplemental materials used in local school districts could rely on some seriously dubious source matter. (Discovery Institute material, perhaps?) Expect the battles over this issue to take place in Texas and Louisiana. Well, last week, the Foundation for Thought and Ethics appeared on a list of publishers who plan to submit supplementary materials for review this spring by the Texas Board of Education for…

Mars Hill May Be Disbanding, But Big Questions Remain

By Becky Garrison

Following Mark Driscoll’s leave of absence and subsequent resignation from the Mars Hill Church network he co-founded in 1996, on October 31, 2014 a notice appeared on the church’s website announcing that they’re essentially disbanding and that the campus locations will merge, become autonomous churches, or cease operation. Already two locations (Bellevue and Spokane) have filed the necessary paperwork with the WA Secretary of State (SOS) to beco…