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Guest Post: The Many Valuable Lessons I Learned at ATI
A guest post by LauraOriginally posted on Homeschoolers’ AnonymousThe 14 years I spent as a student in Bill Gothard’s ATI taught me many valuable lessons for my life. Here are some of the highlights:*...
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Breaking: Bill Gothard Placed on Administrative Leave
WORLD magazine has just reported that the IBPL board of directors has placed Bill Gothard on “administrative leave.” According to WORLD, the board of directors is now investigating the allegations of...
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Bill Gothard has resigned . . . but is that enough?
Yesterday Bill Gothard resigned from the Institute for Basic Life Principles. As my regular readers know, Gothard has been under increased scrutiny due to accusations that he has sexually molested...
View ArticleShorter Bill Gothard: Playing Footsie Isn’t Sexual!
Yesterday Bill Gothard released a statement. Just as notable as what he refused to admit to is what he did admit to. Here is the relevant paragraph:This emphasis on outward appearance was also...
View ArticleWhen Every Touch Is Sexualized
Bill Gothard has now admitted that he held hands with teenage girls in his employ, touched their feet, and caressed their hair, but he claims that none of that was sexual. I grew up in the same cohort...
View ArticleGothard’s Sex Rules: Marital Consent? What’s That?
My family never attended one of Bill Gothard’s seminars, and we didn’t use Gothard’s curriculum. We children were, instead, raised on the outskirts of Gothardism. We knew people who were followers of...
View ArticleDebi Pearl Defends Bill Gothard
How did I miss this? Several weeks ago, Debi Pearl weighed in on the ongoing Bill Gothard scandal. And guess what? Reading her post has caused me to lose the last little bit of respect I had for her...
View ArticleOh Mr. Gothard!
As you probably noticed, my computer glitched and posted my weekly Friday post on Wednesday. Oops! If you haven’t read that post, CTBHHM: The Question of Birth Control, feel free to do so now. For...
View ArticleThe Gothard-Sized Skeleton in HSLDA’s Closet
There is a Gothard-sized skeleton in HSLDA’s closet. But before we get to that, let’s start with an excerpt from Michael Farris’s white paper, A Line in the Sand:Although some people want HSLDA to be...
View ArticlePastors and Secretaries: Enemies of a Gothard Marriage
I’ve been under a lot of stress lately and I’m really tired. But I try to put up a post each day to keep things active and maintain the community here, so today you get more from the Bill Gothard...
View ArticleBill Gothard Was Brought Down by a Blog: Thoughts on the “Proper” Channels...
Do you know how Bill Gothard was brought down?By a blog.Sexual harassment allegations had been made against Gothard for decades—yes, decades—but he was very good at silencing them, and at convincing...
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What Did Josh Duggar’s Counseling Look Like?
This week the news broke that Josh Duggar sexually molested at least five girls in two families while he was a teen. I can’t say for sure what Josh Duggar’s counseling looked like, though it appears it...
View ArticleSexual Predator Bill Gothard Defends Josh Duggar
Bill Gothard has come out in defense of Josh Duggar.‘This is really quite different to what you think. It has been overblown, it is not like he is a sexual predator, he was a teenage boy.‘What he did,...
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Bill Gothard Explains Road Safety (aka How Not to Get Raped)
Do you remember when that Saudi historian said that western women drive because they don’t mind getting raped? He used the danger that occurs when a woman’s car breaks down, leaving her open to sexual...
View ArticleAre Women Biblically Required to “Cry Out” During Rape?
Yesterday we looked at Gothard’s advice for young women in how to repel a “moral” attack (i.e., what to do if you are sexually assaulted). I want to take another look, for two reasons. First, Gothard...
View ArticleIt’s Not Just about Josh Duggar (Some Compiled Readings)
In the aftermath of the revelation that Josh Duggar had an Ashley Madison account, I want to pause to promote some articles making some good points. First and foremost is this absolutely superb blog...
View ArticleBreaking: Leadership of Josh Duggar’s Treatment Center Allegedly Involved in...
Earlier this week Josh Duggar checked into Reformers Unanimous (RU), a Christian residential addiction treatment program in Rockford, Illinois, run by North Love Baptist Church and co-founded by the...
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A Case for Calling the Duggars ATI Rather Than Quiverfull
I wrote recently about some of the many definitional issues surrounding the term “quiverfull.” If you have not already read that post, you can do so here. But in this post I want to go farther and...
View ArticleBill Gothard Defenders Center Obedience
Bill Gothard was taken down largely as a result of efforts by a website named Recovering Grace. This website was founded and run by alumni of Bill Gothard’s various ministry. They initially intended to...
View ArticleA Summary of Allegations against Bill Gothard and IBLP
It has been nearly two years since Bill Gothard stepped down from leadership at his ministry, the Institute for Basic Life Principles (IBLP), amid a growing number of accusations that he sexually...
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