Evangelical institutional leaders accused of bullying were quickly reinstated.

Evidence

Driscoll wasn’t the only alpha male in evangelical circles to run into trouble in the 2010s. In 2011, C. J. Mahaney, president of Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), a church-planting association of eighty predominantly white, Reformed evangelical churches, board member of The Gospel Coalition and CBMW, and cofounder of Together for the Gospel, took a six-month leave after other SGM pastors charged him with “expressions of pride, unentreatability, deceit, sinful judgment and hypocrisy.” His alleged sins included bullying and attempting to blackmail his ministry’s cofounder to keep him from expressing doctrinal disagreements. After that brief hiatus, Mahaney was welcomed back and reinstated. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 620

Categorization

• XREF: Generalizes the Driscoll-defense pattern beyond one celebrity pastor — shows a structural institutional tolerance for alpha-male abuses, strengthening the book’s systemic claim. — connects to: Even wavering evangelical leaders returned to supporting Trump within days — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 596
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Even wavering evangelical leaders returned to supporting Trump within days — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 596