I recently finished listening to the podcast series The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill by Christianity Today. Though it originally released in 2021 (and generated a considerable amount of buzz at the time), I somehow managed to delay listening until now. It’s well-produced and, best I can tell, pretty even-handed in its reporting. While I’m sure there are many lessons to draw from this cautionary tale (the host, Mike Cosper, tries to gesture throughout to larger dynamics that implicate us all), my overall impression by the end was that it’s not going to be easy to extrapolate generic principles from this unique story of implosion.