No selection for "Move to The Cayman Islands And Live Out The Rest Of His Days Drinking Rum Punch and Laughing Hysterically"?

Alabama is the best place for him. They will swallow any shit you shovel down there.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and them's the sumbitches we gonna git!"
-- Rev. Armageddon T. Thunderbird

I voted for him raising chocolate rabbits and dying of Ebola

i'll tell you what neither mars hill nor driscoll is going to do: apologize to all those they've wronged and actively make up for the mistakes made. can you imagine mark as a regular member of the church? submitting to the authority of a community group leader? being told his ideas may not be biblical? working with those he's wronged to make things as close to right as possible?

this is the "best" outcome driscoll and the church could hope for. driscoll knows his church is going down. so he jumps ship before it does. he can start again, because starting over is far easier than repairing. all that mars hill stuff was in the past. just like he already apologized for stuff 14years ago means it no longer matters. only he's even more removed this time. he will wait a bit, sit on his money, and start again. maybe as a pastor of a new church. maybe stepping into an established church. maybe as a talking head. maybe an author. who knows. but i doubt he'll be sitting in any church as a member of the congregation.

mars hill gets a chance to salvage itself without having to answer any more questions about mark. maybe. i mean, that's what they're hoping for. they were willing to continue with mark as their pastor. there are probably a bunch of people there who are not ready to give up on mars hill yet, so it may continue for a while, but i have a hard time seeing that it will ever be a big and influential again. who knows what the prevailing mentality there will be. it's a little weird that they are going for business as usual, instead of a painting this as a new start.

Apparently the Spokane branch is still on track to open within a few months.

"Reverend Armageddon T. Thunderbird" ! Olo, I love it!

Folks forget that MHC attempted, around 2005 I think, to appoint different (non-Mark) preaching pastors at their then-handful of different campuses. It flopped so spectacularly that in less than a year, they reversed course and installed satellite downlinks at each campus so they could simulcast Mark's sermon live from Ballard to every campus every Sunday. Full-length life-size projection of Mark with, no kidding, a strategically placed podium onstage in front of the screen to give the illusion of three dimensions. I don't see them replacing him, at least not successfully.

Ugh. That graphic drives me crazy. The "hook" of the cane is clearly pointed away from Driscoll. Either find a new cane, or layer this cane on TOP of Driscoll's face.

I've grown to appreciate the backwards cane and everything it represents.

@9 Clearly, it is turned that way just until it gets to the correct horizontal position, to be twisted, and quickly pulled to grab the subject.

@9 - Maybe it's not trying to drag him off or anything. Maybe it's just coming in to smack him firmly in the back of the neck.

I think a class-action lawsuit to recover the JesusFest monies is in order. Not to mention the damage to psyches and livelihoods for driving the "church" straight into a tar-pit.

Whatta marooon! ha!

@11 - no, the light reflection/shading is upside down. That's the (graphics) problem. But I agree with @10's point, it does cannily represent the absurd, mirror-world nature of Driscoll's whole, ahem, enterprise.