Bonus: Responding to Joshua Harris & “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” w/ Uncertain Podcast & The New Evangelicals
Show Notes
Episode Summary
Recently, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill (a Christianity Today podcast that looks into why Mars Hill church met such a quick demise) released a bonus episode. In the episode, host Mike Cosper spent time looking at how Mars Hill’s pastor, Mark Driscoll, and Joshua Harris, the I Kissed Dating Goodbye author and former Sovereign Grace Ministries prodigy, had many similarities, despite having wildly different personalities. But then, because Harris no longer identifies as Christian and considers himself to be “deconstructing,” Cosper spends the final 20 minutes talking about deconstruction. So Melanie asked Katherine Spearing of Uncertain Podcast and Tim Whitaker of The New Evangelicals to join her in analyzing his points and examining why evangelicals and ex-evangelicals are having polar opposite reactions to it.
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Credits
This episode was produced by The Sophia Society. Music is by Faith in Foxholes, and sound engineering is by Joshua Mudge (currently accepting new clients: josh.mudge09@gmail.com).
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