long weekends screw up my weeks

I honestly can't tell if I'm coming or going.

Note to self: IT IS NOT FRIDAY.

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A number of links, mostly faith-related.

Lessons from the Rise And Fall Of Mars Hill Church

The Mars Hill Podcast puts blame anywhere except where it belongs

Evangelical identity politics and its imbrication with white supremacy, heteropatriachy, and neoliberalism are intersecting problems in a story that attempts to figure out who killed Mars Hill. The better question is: how do known abusive leaders such as Driscoll get a free pass to continue preaching in the pulpit and through online ministry? Charismatic spiritual fathers who sacrifice the vulnerable, while theologically justifying it as biblical, go about their business. This gaslighting at the scale of population isn’t simply harmful to individuals, it’s a systemic problem  for an insatiable evangelical industrial complex that makes new idols out of old and replicates divisive us-versus-them ideologies within and outside of churches. Asking the flagship publication of the evangelical industrial complex to examine itself may yield a slick new product, but it just replicates the same old problems.

The Unmaking Of Biblical Womanhood

Should Christians Be Opposed To Vaccination? (Answer: no.)

The Unlikely Rebound Of Mainline Protestantism: I found this interesting in that Australian Evangelicals seem to be a blend of American Mainline Protestants and Evangelicals.