Stephanie Drury, along with running the site Stuff Christian Culture Likes and the Twitter handle @fakeDriscoll, is also The Monarch’s resident Religion correspondent. So, given all the hubbub on Tuesday about an Ask Mark Driscoll campaign on Twitter, we just HAD to ask Stephanie One Super Important Question. 

Jake Uitti: In light of today’s Ask Pastor Mark gimmick on Twitter and how it brought to light so many problems people have with Mark Driscoll – can you summarize for us WHAT HAPPENED and WHY?

Stephanie Drury: What happened on twitter today and why? Let me try to put it in 400 words! So Mars Hill is a megachurch based here in Seattle that is spreading around the world, and a lot of people are really concerned about the fact that they teach that women need to submit to men and that being gay is a sin. Their teachings are theologically controversial but they place a big emphasis on looking and sounding hip, but the fact is that they don’t validate equality for women and the LGBTQ community.

The other day Mark Driscoll, the lead pastor of Mars Hill, announced that he would be having a Twitter Q&A today, which presented the perfect opportunity for anyone to ask some of the harder questions about women and homosexuality that he tends to dodge. Megan Seling brought out the big guns, asking why he treats women the way he does, and I answered questions directed at him in character from my parody account (@fakedriscoll). So it felt like a bit of a guerilla operation where we got to make a statement about how harmful we believe Mars Hill to be. He didn’t answer any of these questions, by the way.