The rules of Random Date Archaeology are simple: pick a date somewhere inside the surviving archive, don’t reroll because it looks boring, search only deeply enough to see what survives, and then let the artifacts interrogate my memory. This time the date dropped us onto Saturday, March 14, 2015. At first, it looked like we…

In 2021, Christianity Today released a two-and-a-half-hour episode of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill called “The Tempest.” Somewhere in the middle of it, Mike Cosper tells the story of three nerds who recovered 140 pages of Mark Driscoll’s old internet posts: Dwayne Forehand found them buried in the internet archive, Adam Wygle assembled…