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When Mars Hill Church closed the doors for the last service, the corporation Mars Hill Church did not cease. However, it has never been clear who remained in charge of the organization on a day to day basis. By by-law, the church’s Board of Advisors and Accountability has the power…
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Initially, the story of Craig Gross buying an email list from Church Leaders List seemed like a marketing story gone sideways. However, there appears to be much more to the matter. At the end of Christianity Today’s article on this, Bob Smietana wrote: On Tuesday, Dean apologized for his part in the…
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So Monday night, John Hagee’s Blood Moon movie aired around the country. According to promoters, it was so popular that they are bringing it back in April. Unless, of course, the world ends before that. A breathless press release gives the details: Read the rest here. There is at least…
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To Baptist Press, Lifeway yesterday announced that all heaven tourism books will no longer be sold in their stores. LifeWay Christian Resources has stopped selling all “experiential testimonies about heaven” following consideration of a 2014 Southern Baptist Convention resolution on “the sufficiency of Scripture regarding the afterlife.” This snowball started…
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Sunday, Threads, a young looking UK evangelical blog, posted a call from Alex Willmott for people everywhere to forgive Mark Driscoll. Mr. Willmott wants forgiveness for something he did so he naturally thought of Mark Driscoll. Or something like that. It is pretty funny actually. To wit: Time to make some…
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UPDATE: Just a bit ago, Craig Gross updated his post with the following information: I asked the lawyer that was in charge selling the assets for 100k earlier in 2014 and he said that no one has purchased the rights to sell these assets yet That lawyer is Steven Goodspeed…
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This brief primer by Thomas Kidd in how deism was understood during the founding era is well worth reading. Kidd cuts through the fog often generated by Christian nationalists (e.g., David Barton) and the new atheists regarding the religious beliefs of the founders. A brief sample: So what was deism?…
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Anti-Porn Ministry Buys Mailing List; Turns Out It Includes Mars Hill Church's The Resurgence Emails
UPDATE: It appears that the website used to purchase the list is now down and went down after Craig Gross pointed out where he got the list. I have a screen cap of it and it still exists on Google’s cache. The website does not identify the mailing list as…
