Tish Harrison Warren lit up the internet with an essay for Christianity Today that asked, "Who's in Charge of the Christian Blogosphere?" In her piece, Warren addressed "a crisis of authority" resulting from so much de facto discipleship occurring on social media rather than in the church—a phenomenon that, for a variety of reasons, women have experienced most acutely.
Even before Warren's essay was published, Kate Bowler, associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School, was compiling years of research on the conditions within modern American evangelicalism that helped lead to this state of affairs.
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