LifeWay removes Driscoll’s books from website, stores

SEATTLE — LifeWay Christian Resources has pulled Pastor Mark Driscoll’s books from its website and 186 stores.

Leaders of the church planting network Acts 29 recently removed Driscoll and his churches from the group he helped found and asked that he “step down from ministry for an extended time and seek help.”

Driscoll has been an influential but edgy pastor within conservative evangelical circles for several years. Mars Hill Church, Seattle, where he serves as pastor attracts some 14,000 people at 15 locations across five states. He has been provocative, occasionally profane and has faced allegations of plagiarism and inflating book sales.

Driscoll recently admitted to and apologized for crude comments he made about feminism, homosexuality and “sensitive emasculated” men on an online discussion forum under the pseudonym “William Wallace II.”