The protest of the Mars Hill mega-church that we've been talking about for the past few weeks didn't go down as planned this weekend. It was called off at the last minute after Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll agreed to sit down with some of the organizers and discuss his egregious remarks towards women. Here is a recounting of that meeting and here is Driscoll's response to the protest. Below is an exchange we had with protest organizer Paul Chapman. more ›

Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll is blowing up. His recent blog post on Ted Haggard, the meth smoking, gay prostitute hiring Colorado pastor displayed all of Mark's trademark bravado and bluster and unfortunately it probably made him as many new friends as new enemies and his apology for that post in no way apologizes for anything. And why should he? It's a very orchestrated campaign that presupposes, fosters and needs opposition. more ›

Ok, our little shout-out to the organizers of the Mars Hill direct action earlier today worked, and we're sorry to be so pushy about it, but we're glad it worked. We should have done that days ago. more ›