Could it be that many men who have risen to the top of evangelical institutions just wouldn't be that impressive anywhere else?

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I've been thinking about two incidents lately: Al Mohler's comments about apparent sex abuser Paul Pressler (throwing shade on the accusations saying, 'he had a lot of enemies'), and Bart Barber's 'joke' at the expense of sexual abuse survivors.

Something has occurred to me.

Many men high up in evangelical institutions have spent their lives in the evangelical world. They went to evangelical colleges & seminaries. They pastored churches. They served on boards of parachurch organizations.

And all of this took place in an evangelical bubble.

Do you know what's missing in the evangelical bubble? Women's voices, minority voices, & actual academics doing peer reviewed work in their fields of study (outside of complementarian theology).

They've spent their entire working lives with their views largely unchallenged.