The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill#629468

By Jonathan Carone - July 27th, 2021, 9:19 am

- July 27th, 2021, 9:19 am #629468

Anyone else listening to this? It's been disturbing and fascinating all at the same time.

Re: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill#629470

By thepostman - July 27th, 2021, 9:36 am

- July 27th, 2021, 9:36 am #629470

I haven't listened to today's episode yet but have listened to all of the others. I remember in the early 2000's thinking Mars Hill was it. He was edgy and said things from the pulpit I wasn't used to. Then it just fell apart and it has been fascinating to listen to it all but like you said disturbing too. I also feel silly for being so into Mars Hill. Another young and naive moment from me in the early 2000s.

I have found a lot of the modern church history stuff pretty fascinating. The podcast has been really well done.

Re: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill#629473

By Jonathan Carone - July 27th, 2021, 9:54 am

- July 27th, 2021, 9:54 am #629473

The episode today was really yucky.

Re: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill#629474

By Sly Fox - July 27th, 2021, 10:12 am

- July 27th, 2021, 10:12 am #629474

A few years ago I was in the process of writing a manuscript on crisis coms in churches. I reached out to several of the folks in Mars Hill as the Driscoll crisis was unfolding hoping to use it as a case study. The fear in their responses to me were reminiscent of former cult members I used to interview. Everyone would tell me to keep digging but refused to say anything else. Sadly I eventually set that manuscript aside for more pressing corporate work. Perhaps I will pick it back up again.

I haven't caught up on the episodes but it is on my agenda.

Re: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill#629480

By Jonathan Carone - July 27th, 2021, 11:05 am

- July 27th, 2021, 11:05 am #629480

Their former comms director - who I am admittedly not a fan of at all - has made quite the name for himself in the church comms world of the back of how badly they handled all that.

Re: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill#629514

By Sly Fox - July 27th, 2021, 3:43 pm

- July 27th, 2021, 3:43 pm #629514

He wouldn't ackowledge my outreaches to him. Other staffers at least were polite.

Re: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill#630651

By Sly Fox - August 28th, 2021, 11:16 am

- August 28th, 2021, 11:16 am #630651

I finished off the series and there are penty fo reasons hy folks on this board would find it compelling. They actually handled the series fairly well as a whole. The constant reformed references by the host was a bit annoying but otherwise I belueve they handled the subject matter very well.

They recently dropped an extra episode on Josh Harris that I suspect many on this board might find worth a listen based on being in the purity culture movement back in the day.