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Their Day in Court: Part Three
February 22, 2019 // 167 Comments -
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 // 162 Comments -
Introducing our IBYC/IBLP Facebook Recovery Group
December 31, 2015 // 24 Comments -
An ATI Education, Chapter 5: We the People Under Author ...
December 23, 2015 // 49 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 -
How the Teachings of Emotional Purity and Courtship Dam ...
July 22, 2011 // 431 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
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Personal Stories
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 3: Thou Shalt Not Trap the Eye
- 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
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?