» News: Salon.com Covers Acts 29 Pastor Mark Driscoll

Salon.com published a feature article profiling Mark Driscoll and the Mars Hill Church. The article takes a political or sociological approach to Mars Hill, allowing the church to epitomize what the author calls the "Discple Generation" - "Within this movement lies something as old as America itself, and as terrifying and alluring as anything Orwell predicted; something that is at once political, emotional, deeply anti-intellectual, and more galvanized than you can imagine. I call this population of fierce young evangelicals the Disciple Generation."

The author, Lauren Sandler, focuses on Driscoll's emphasis of fruitfulness in marriage and his emphasis on "traditional" gender roles. Sandler represents Driscoll's soteriology as though Driscoll preaches legalism: "When Driscoll invokes his Lord, he describes an uncompromising disciplinarian who demands utter obedience from his followers in exchange for rescue from an eternity in hell."

Salon.com notes that the article is adapted from Sandler's book Righteous: Dispatches From the Evangelical Youth Movement.