Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Mars Hill covered by the Christian Science Monitor, Ruth Graham returns with a story at The Atlantic

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0307/Pastor-reportedly-buys-his-way-onto-New-York-Times-bestseller-list

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0312/Pastor-s-church-responds-after-he-allegedly-buys-his-way-onto-NYT-bestseller-list

There's some coverage of Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church in the Christian Science Monitor.

And here's something new by Ruth Graham at the Atlantic.  Graham covered the Mars Hill 2012 disciplinary situation with Andrew Lamb back in 2012.  Actually, Graham (or Graham's editor(s) completely misunderstanding the blog post linked to over here at Wenatchee The Hatchet was probably the single biggest catalyst for deciding to blog more about Mars Hill Church.  That said, Graham has mostly caught up to the plagiarism and sale-rigging controversies of the last four months. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/can-megachurches-deal-with-mega-money-in-a-christian-way/284379/

It is probably that while Mars Hill Church and Mark Driscoll might have found it favorable to get coverage in these two august publications nobody over there was likely hoping that the recent controversies about plagiarism in at least half a dozen Driscoll books and a rigged place on the NYT bestseller list was probably not a preferred way to get coverage from CSM or Atlantic.

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