Warren Throckmorton
Mars Hill Church Deletes Mark Driscoll's Teaching on Jesus Making Mistakes
WMWJD?* On May 4, Mark Driscoll preached on Acts 6:1-7. In keeping with usual procedure, the video of the sermon was not posted on the church website until yesterday. Those who watch the sermon on the website are missing some material from the live delivery two weeks ago. A segment of nearly six minutes was deleted…
Read MoreJoshua Harris and C.J. Mahaney No Longer Listed As Gospel Coalition Council Members
Checking out a lead that Joshua Harris and C.J. Mahaney had resigned from the Gospel Coalition Council, I asked the editor of the GC, Joe Carter, for comment. He wrote back to say that the GC isn’t commenting on the resignations and referred me to Harris and Mahaney for additional information. The current Council page…
Read MoreMegachurch Methods: Apparently Mars Hill Global Money Can Be Spent Anywhere
Those in charge of Mars Hill Global seem to agree with me that Mars Hill Global is really Mars Hill Church. Last week, I posted a 2011 document about the rebranding of Mars Hill Global (among other things, “cultivate an international audience and giving base”) and a slide showing the dramatic rise in giving on behalf of…
Read MoreCNN Fires Editor Over Multiple Instances of Plagiarism
It is becoming plagiarism Friday. See these previous posts. Today CNN announced the ouster of Marie-Louise Gumuchian, a former editor who wrote mainly about international news. According to an Editor’s note on the CNN website, CNN discovered about 50 articles with plagiarized material. According to the Washington Post, there were 128 separate instances of plagiarized material…
Read MoreOn Being a Ghostwriter Without Knowing It
Comedian Danny Murphy today relates a story of having some of his material end up in several sources without attribution. He provided detail about his interactions with magachurch pastor Craig Groeschel. Groeschel, pastor of LifeChurch.tv, modified the material for use in a book on marriage. That first book went out of print but a newer…
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