The Bubble - Part 1 - The Rev. Philip DeVaul

Rev. Phil recounts growing up short, overweight, and later bald, stressing he isn’t ashamed or seeking compliments, and describes being bad at sports and feeling undesirable to girls and out of place among other boys. He shares family upheaval—his parents’ split when he was 13, downsizing, his father moving away and later coming out as gay, and keeping that secret due to school and church—followed by a cross-country move and restarting in a different culture. Though he hustled socially and felt he struggled, he later recognizes significant advantages: always having money, living upper middle class, attending private schools without scholarship, choosing a swanky New England prep school and college, receiving a car, and benefiting from lenient policing, all within an overwhelmingly white bubble. He previews a series on how that bubble has been burst, how he’s tried to rebuild it, and how faith in Jesus is pushing him toward honesty about privilege.

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