Apr 25, 2026It’s been almost 13 years since I confronted now-disqualified Pastor Mark Driscoll about his plagiarized book on my radio show and watched as the dominos of his celebrity-pastor con game began to fall, one by one.I last wrote about him in 2014, in a fit of frustration that this scandal-riddled charlatan was somehow still at the helm of Mars Hill Church, even after everything that I and others had revealed about him (he left Mars Hill soon thereafter to launch The Trinity Church in Scottsdale, AZ).I said in that article that I was done, and I have been done ever since. I can only take so much, after all. But I’ve decided to come briefly out of self-imposed Driscoll hibernation after reading Vince Manuele’s new book, “Kiss and Tell: The Innocent Moment that Shattered Mark Driscoll’s Cult.”...
Huh ... kind of a weird title ... since it would sure seem like Mark Driscoll Ministries is plugging along pretty well if there's a new capital campaign announced for a recently acquired building and stuff like that.
Wenatchee The Hatchet has never said "I'm done" with this stuff. There's less to write about but sometimes something sparks up. I reviewed Justin Dean's PR Matters ... so ... I guess I should get around to this one, too.
To the best of my knowledge, there have been no memoirs about being at churches founded or co-founded by Mark Driscoll. I can't seriously count Mark Driscoll's own books because memoir and anecdote are so inextricably woven into his self-help volumes they can't really be considered memoirs or autobiographical accounts as such. Every story gets rolled out to make a fairly literally dogmatic (it runs in the family and is part of the family business).
I could be wrong. Maybe somebody has published a memoir about their time at Mars Hill Church already and I just never heard of it.
UPDATE 5-2-2026 (after the break)
