Jennifer McKinney's Making Christianity Manly Again: Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church and American evangelicalism, Oxford University Press just came out--a brief list of the small list of books WtH actually recommends on the history of MH so far

Jennifer McKinney's book is called Making Christianity Manly Again: Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church, and American Evangelicalism

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/making-christianity-manly-again-9780197655795?cc=us&lang=en&

I've picked it up and will start reading it.  I must confess that, having written as much as I have about Mars Hill since maybe 2008 or so, I am not sure I'm going to see anything new in McKinney's book.  What's more I attended the little school by the canal and got a journalism degree there.  

I must confess I'm not holding my breath thinking there's going to be anything new in this book.  In fact I find the likelihood that it will have anything new to say compared to earlier works to be somewhere close to zero.  

I do want to take a moment to mention it because I'll be reading it and because I've got a list of stuff I've already that is thematically or directly related to Mars Hill Church that i do recommend.  I don't anticipate McKinney's book being a bad book but I'm about to share a list of books or dissertations I've read so far that touch on Mars Hill that will explain, I trust, why I don't anticipate any surprises in the new OUP volume. Books and thoughts on them after the break:

in light of Haynes' dissertation on Mars Hill musical culture, there's a book called Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels that caught my eye

"Punk Rock Calvinists Who Hate the Modern Worship Movement": Ritual, Power, and

White Masculinity in Mars Hill Church's Worship Music

https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/40945/Haynes_washington_0250E_18185.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

 

I finished Maren Haynes' PhD on Mars Hill musical culture and hope to write about that some time in 2021.  I wasn't too surprised, having spent so much time at Mars Hill myself from about 1999 to 2009 and in connection to people there through 2013, that the Mars Hill musical culture defaulted to grunge, indie rock and white hipster bro sounds.  But ...

Maren Haynes dissertation, "Punk Rock Calvinists Who Hate the Modern Worship Movement": Ritual, Power, and White Masculinity in Mars Hill Church's Worship Music

The recent interview Warren Throckmorton had with Sutton Turner and Dave Bruskas featured, among other things, mention that there was some tension between Mark wanting his products promoted and the nascent would-be Mars Hill Music getting off the ground.  That reminded me that I got word of a project by Maren Haynes through the University of Washington. The PhD dissertation ...