Mars Hill Church Closing For Good…

Last updated on: November 1, 2014 at 1:35 am By Andy Gill

Halloween night here in Princeton and I was just trying to hand out candy, watch netflix, and eat take out, but a few hours ago my phone started to blow up about Mars Hill Church closing. Yup, it’s true. Mars Hill Church has decided to completely “dissolve itself.” Pastor Dave Bruskas stated their main website: Following much prayer and lengthy discussion with Mars Hill’s leadership, the board of Mars Hill has concluded that rather than remaining a centralized multi-site church with... Read more

Evangelicals For Marriage Equality

Last updated on: October 28, 2014 at 8:00 pm By Andy Gill

[Photo By: BEN CHRISMAN] Churches are splitting, congregants are leaving, parents are abusing, and denominations are falling apart dividing into smaller versions of themselves. Laws have been made, rights have been stripped, and children, one’s own flesh and blood, have been abandoned. You would think that this “war” rapidly disintegrating the church is something equivalent to the 2nd temple destruction in Jerusalem. But no, what’s destroying a so-called immovable force that’s sitting on a “solid rock,” is a theological agenda in... Read more

Should You Go to Seminary?

Last updated on: February 20, 2016 at 12:04 pm By Guest Contributor

[Photo provided and taken by @lauralawsonvisconti] Should you go to seminary? As a young man I was a member of a Pentecostal Church in my hometown where the Senior Pastor told young men such as myself—those who showed some interest in serving the Church—that the best thing we could do was develop a trade to sustain us and then either assist in an established Church or “plant” one ourselves. It was unthinkable to this man that someone who was seriously committed... Read more

A Simple Method to Resolve an Argument

Last updated on: February 20, 2016 at 12:04 pm By Guest Contributor

[Illustrated by Kadriya Khayrutdinova. Edit suggestions by Anne Diebel.] Every time, in the heat of arguing, it’s in our human nature to do our best to win. However, arguing can get quite irrational when we lose focus on what we’re trying to resolve. If we’re not focused on solving the problem,we’re wasting time and energy that can be diverted into something more positive. On the bad stage of an argument, our empathy for the other person disappears, and empowers our... Read more

Is Christianity Really Dying?

Last updated on: October 17, 2014 at 10:15 pm By Andy Gill

[A more comprehensive look into the study, research, and it’s methods can be found here at Pew Research, where a majority of these numbers are from] Is Christianity really dying? I think when many of us, here in the US, have heard or say “Christianity is dying,” what we mean is that Americanized version of Christianity and their institutions are dying. We unfortunately tend to forget that the world, and Christianity doesn’t, revolve around us, which is partly why people,... Read more

Mark Driscoll Resigns

Last updated on: October 15, 2014 at 8:20 pm By Andy Gill

At first I was glad, but I find myself now incredibly sad upon hearing that Mark Driscoll resigned. I’m just as surprised and confused as to why I might feel sad about Driscoll resigning as you are. I mean it’s a good thing, right? For him, for his family, for Mars Hill, for the Church at large… Mark, Mars Hill, his counterparts, and of course the victims can now find healing, and can rest, and someday [hopefully] be restored! This is all good…... Read more

Partial Justice: Woman Locks Officer in Basement

Last updated on: March 1, 2024 at 10:03 am By Andy Gill

[Woman Locks Officer In Basement: You might have seen this pop up on Reddit the other day. This is actually an older news story from what I’ve gathered the incident took place in July of 2009 and WBALTV reported on it in April of 2012.] According to WBALTV then 87 year old Venus Green was “roughed up and injured by police, [and] will receive $95,000 as part of a settlement with Baltimore City.” This took place shortly after Venus Green’s grandson was shot at a... Read more

The Cost of Leaving Christianity

Last updated on: October 14, 2014 at 6:07 am By Andy Gill

You know sometimes you tell a lie so long, you don’t know when to stop. You don’t know when it’s safe. When I left the Church I left my career, I left my family, I left my friends, and eventually I left god I left their version of who they taught me god “was, is, and always will be.” I left this because it didn’t feel safe. Instead of feeling safe I just felt trapped. When talking about my frustrations or... Read more

1500 Year Old Bible [and why you shouldn’t trust everything you read on the internet]

Last updated on: November 23, 2015 at 9:20 pm By Andy Gill

So apparently in 2012 a 1500 year old bible re-surfaced in Turkey after supposedly having been seized by a mob of smugglers. More interestingly, to me at least, these “deviants” are said to have been charged with smuggling antiquities, illegal excavations, and the possession of explosives [can you hear the wheels churning in the minds of hollywood? #NationalTreasure8!]. Photocopies of this 1500 year old “Bible,” are estimated up to $1.7 million dollars, while the entire book itself is estimated to be around $28 million.... Read more

Pentecostalism and Spiritual Abuse

Last updated on: February 20, 2016 at 12:04 pm By Guest Contributor

[This is a guest post written by Carly Gelsinger] We were the “chosen ones,” the ones who lived in the “Secret Place of the Lord,” because we prayed in tongues and knew Jesus intimately. At the altar, our hands shook as heavenly visions came down on us. We fasted, we prayed for healings and breakthroughs and claimed powerful things in the name of God. We changed atmospheres, we demolished strongholds, and we fell to the floor by the wind of the... Read more