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Seen "Shiny Happy People?"
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Their Day in Court: Part Three
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Their Day in Court: Part Two
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Their Day in Court: Part One
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Statement from Recovering Grace regarding the lawsuit a ...
March 28, 2018 // 188 Comments -
Rethinking the Nativity
December 25, 2016 // 145 Comments -
Bill Gothard’s Powerless Gospel
March 2, 2016 // 259 Comments -
Plaintiffs Amend Lawsuit Against IBLP, Also Sue Bill Go ...
January 10, 2016 // 1311 Comments -
An ATI Education, Final Chapter: Guilty Silence
January 4, 2016 // 168 Comments -
Introducing our IBYC/IBLP Facebook Recovery Group
December 31, 2015 // 24 Comments
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Plaintiffs Amend Lawsuit Against IBLP, Also Sue Bill Go ...
January 10, 2016 // 1311 Comments -
Charlotte's Story
February 5, 2014 // 605 Comments -
Bill’s Cabin: Uncovering Sin
May 21, 2014 // 477 Comments -
Sacred Grooming, Part Six: A Secretary's Account of Lif ...
January 31, 2014 // 406 Comments -
Trapped in the Shadow of 'God's Anointed': Breaking fre ...
May 5, 2014 // 379 Comments -
Our Response to Bill Gothard’s Statement
April 22, 2014 // 359 Comments -
A Call to Repentance
June 6, 2013 // 353 Comments -
Bill Gothard Issues Public Statement
April 17, 2014 // 341 Comments -
The Agent of Satan
June 4, 2014 // 337 Comments -
Confident Statements Do Not a Solid Argument Make
November 6, 2014 // 330 Comments
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Gothard Files
Their Day in Court: Part Three
This is part three of a three-part series.Part OnePart Two Motion for Sanctions: Plaintiff Megan Lind Megan Lind (her story HERE) was the last plaintiff ...
- Their Day in Court: Part Two
- Their Day in Court: Part One
- Negligence Lawsuit Filed Against IBLP
- Church Celebrities Who are Above Criticism: Bill Gothard
- Failure to Repent: Tell It to the Church
- The Characteristics of a Sexual Groomer
- Bill Gothard's New Website
- IBYC Board Minutes 1977-1980
- The Package: Bill Gothard's Knowledge of Sin
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Seen "Shiny Happy People?"
Welcome to Recovering Grace! We want to extend a warm welcome to all the visitors who have come to our website due to the release of the documentary "Shiny Happy ...
- Plaintiffs Amend Lawsuit Against IBLP, Also Sue Bill Gothard
- Negligence Lawsuit Filed Against IBLP
- Speaking Up Late in the Day
- Bill Gothard Issues Public Statement
- How Could This Happen Here?
- An Update from Recovering Grace
- Questions from the Mailbag
- The GOTHARD Files: A Case for Disqualification
- 2013 Year in Review
Personal Stories
Perspectives
An ATI Education, Chapter 4: The Law of Grace
"If a woman doesn’t cry out when she’s raped, God holds her equally guilty with her attacker." Bill Gothard states this outright in Wisdom Booklet 36; hundred...
- An ATI Education, Chapter 3: Thou Shalt Not Trap the Eye
- The Brilliance of Bill Gothard
- The Truth About God's Justice
- Resurrection Rhythms
- ATI: Designed Around a False Education "Principle" (Part 2)
- ATI: Designed Around a False Education "Principle" (Part 1)
- Manipulation by Humiliation
- Sorry, Mom and Dad. We DO Have Regrets
- An Open Letter to ATI Parents
Tales from Training Centers
A Long Night's Journey Through the ATI / IBLP System
I grew up in Bill Gothard's Advanced Training Institute of America (ATIA, later renamed ATI) home school program from 1985 through 2005 — twenty years! I worked at f...
- When Sexual Harassment at IBLP Headquarters Is Acknowledged
- Sacred Grooming, Part One: A Secretary's Account of Life With Bill Gothard
- Life Focus: The Price of a White Polo
- Life Focus: A Sister's Perspective
- Examining "Life Focus"
- Why Not Confront Him Personally?
- Sonic Bloom: Untruth With An Agenda
- Parents in a Potemkin Village: Six Weeks in the Moscow Training Center
- Life Focus: Isolation Instead of Relationship
The Destructive Effects of ATI & IBLP
An ATI Education, Final Chapter: Guilty Silence
Was a woman raped? Don't jump to her defense—God might hold her just as guilty as her attacker. In Wisdom Booklet 36, Gothard discusses the legal penalties fo...
- An ATI Education, Chapter 5: We the People Under Authority
- An ATI Education, Chapter 4: The Law of Grace
- An ATI Education, Chapter 2: Is It Just Me?
- An ATI Education, Chapter 1: Under the Umbrella
- An ATI Education: Introduction
- Stolen Dreams
- Church Celebrities Who are Above Criticism: Bill Gothard
- The Shame of Beauty
- The Package: Bill Gothard and His Children
Upon Further Review--Twisted Scriptures
Waiting on Theological Clarification from IBLP
After Bill Gothard was deemed disqualified from ministry by his Board of Directors in 2014, a number of theologians and church leaders called on the Institute in Bas...
- IBYC According to Bryen - 1975
- Me and My Red Notebook
- Four Pre-Digital Reviews of Gothard's Theology
- Trapped in the Shadow of 'God's Anointed': Breaking free from an Unbiblical Concept
- A Call for Discernment
- Silencing the Lambs: Twisting Matthew 18
- Silencing the Lambs: Taking Up Offenses
- Silencing the Lambs: Listening to an Evil Report
- "Rocky" Arguments and a Double Standard
When the Umbrella Breaks: Sexual Abuse in ATI
The Characteristics of a Sexual Groomer
When I think back over my life, and what happened to me when I was 20, when I met Bill Gothard, I think of this quote from the character of Rosa Dartle in David Co...
- How "Lessons From Moral Failures in a Family" Blames Victims
- Speaking Up Late in the Day
- Twelve Characteristics of Fundamentalist Societies that Shelter Sexual Abuse
- Readings on Acknowledging and Healing from Sexual Abuse
- Finding the Words to Say, "No More"
- There Is No Victim: A Survey of IBLP Literature on Sexual Assault and Abuse
- A Long Night's Journey Through the ATI / IBLP System
- When Sexual Harassment at IBLP Headquarters Is Acknowledged
- How Could This Happen Here?