Mars Hill Church is history. Church leaders announced today they plan to break up the church into independent congregations, sell buildings whose loans aren’t assumed by congregations, and lay off the entire central office staff. While the plan contemplates that some of its branch churches m[...]
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April 5th, 2015 - 12:40 pm § in Politics
“Should a gay person be required to print ‘God hates fags’ signs for Westboro Church?”
That’s the question Rick Santorum asked on “Face the Nation” today. This was Santorum’s lead-in to his assertion that “tolerance is a two-way street.” It’s clearly a loaded question; is it also a false equivalency? A core concept of the Constitution is that[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Mars Hill Pastor is Back
Now Disbanded, Mars Hill Church’s Disgraced Pastor Mark Driscoll Is Back With A Flashy New Website Soliciting Tax Free Donations[...]
November 16th, 2014 - 11:38 am § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Nome May Be First Town In U.S. To Tax Its Churches
Taxing Churches Nome, Alaska, is a tiny town of less than 4000 people. Despite its size, its name is well-known, showing up in popular culture venues from “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” of the 1950’s, to “The X-Files,” to “The Simpsons Movie.” And Nome is the [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Seattle’s Mega Church Implodes
Seattle’s Mars Hill Church, announced the closing of three locations and warned that another would be closed if donations fail to increase. The church also laid off around 40 of their 100 church staff, including several pastors who had expressed public disagreement with church leaders. The membe[...]
January 12th, 2014 - 8:00 am § in The Ave Scene
THE Ave Scene: Plagiarism in Seattle’s Own Fundamentalist Church?
Will Christian Publishers Stand Behind Mars Hill’s Sketchy Legacy? By Becky Garrison at Religion Digest Update 12/30/31: NavPress just issued the following statement via e-mail. “We have chosen to respond to Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church directly and will keep the conversation pri[...]
November 2nd, 2015 - 11:13 am § in Misc.
Of Faux and Hypocrisy
Which is worse … a Bill O’Reilly Self Righteous rant or the Sunday sermon at Mars Church?[...]
May 16th, 2024 - 11:59 pm § in Law and Courts
Court throws out 100-year-old conviction of tribal hunter
It took 100 years, but Jim Wallahee’s illegal hunting conviction was finally reversed. The Washington Supreme Court ruled on May 16, 2024, that he had a treaty right to shoot that deer. (See story here and court decision here.) When Europeans began settling in North America, they exercised wha[...]
May 3rd, 2021 - 9:20 pm § in Politics
D.C.: The GOP’s Maryland option
Republicans like things just the way they are, but if D.C. residents (over half of whom are black) insist on being represented in Congress like other Americans, then they prefer to tack D.C. onto Maryland. Of course they do. Because D.C. statehood would add two new senators, who certainly would be D[...]
Mars Hill Church’s Driscoll Resigns
Seattle’s Own Megachurch Is Failing News sources report that Mark Driscoll, controversial founder of Seattle-based Mars Hill Church, has resigned his pastor position. He took a leave of absence several weeks ago to think over his future, after public controversy erupted over his authoritaria[...]