C. J. Mahaney is one of those figures that seems to be close to so many different stories within evangelicalism. You mentioned Rachael Denholer and Joshua Harris. But he was one of the original group that founded The Gospel Coalition and Together for the Gospel (T4G).
Tullian Tchividjian was asked to leave TGC blog and at the time it appeared that at least part of his relational break with TGC was because he was critiquing TGC's defense of CJ Mahaney because of Mahaney's defense of sexual abuse within his church network and the authoritarian response to the news of that. (Tchividjian not long after had his own sexual abuse and other misbehavior crisis that led to him being removed from his pastorate and also had a group that came around and defended him.)
Kevin DeYoung was mentored by Mahaney. Mahaney offered to mentor Mark Driscoll and appears to have been close around 2007 when Driscoll was facing an early crisis. Doug Wilson and John Piper both invited to preach or speak at conferences long after issues with Mahaney were clear.
Many of these memoirs seem to have come out of particularly problematic church backgrounds. And I do wonder about how that reality matters.
C. J. Mahaney is one of those figures that seems to be close to so many different stories within evangelicalism. You mentioned Rachael Denholer and Joshua Harris. But he was one of the original group that founded The Gospel Coalition and Together for the Gospel (T4G).
Tullian Tchividjian was asked to leave TGC blog and at the time it appeared that at least part of his relational break with TGC was because he was critiquing TGC's defense of CJ Mahaney because of Mahaney's defense of sexual abuse within his church network and the authoritarian response to the news of that. (Tchividjian not long after had his own sexual abuse and other misbehavior crisis that led to him being removed from his pastorate and also had a group that came around and defended him.)
Kevin DeYoung was mentored by Mahaney. Mahaney offered to mentor Mark Driscoll and appears to have been close around 2007 when Driscoll was facing an early crisis. Doug Wilson and John Piper both invited to preach or speak at conferences long after issues with Mahaney were clear.
Many of these memoirs seem to have come out of particularly problematic church backgrounds. And I do wonder about how that reality matters.