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Seen "Shiny Happy People?"
May 31, 2023 // 254 Comments -
Their Day in Court: Part Three
February 22, 2019 // 167 Comments -
Their Day in Court: Part Two
February 22, 2019 // 0 Comments -
Their Day in Court: Part One
February 22, 2019 // 1 Comment -
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 // 609 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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Bill Gothard never studied music. Bill Gothard nev ...
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I am very sorry about your husband. It is totally ...
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Thank you for sharing your story Charlotte. It too ...
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Thank you for sharing your story Charlotte. It too ...
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Thank you all. Everyone that has read my story &am ...
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JM, you write: "The only point I can take issue ...
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I enjoyed reading this. I honestly did. Picking ap ...
By JM, April 9, 2024 -
Is it really, Rob? Really? Is it okay to misrepres ...
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Yes, I am aware Vlad Dracula is a national hero in ...
By rob war, April 4, 2024 -
It's interesting that we think of the Impaler that ...
By JM, April 3, 2024 -
Well, the real Count Dracula of Transylvania was V ...
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It was unsettling to me that you didn't seem to un ...
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Dracula wouldn't be something I would have used to ...
By rob war, March 13, 2024 -
I don't argue that. I was referring to this author ...
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I had read "Let me be a Woman" long ago while at c ...
By rob war, March 8, 2024 -
I definitely agree with that take. Again, I haven' ...
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fleshofmyflesh/2024/ ...
By rob war, March 6, 2024 -
I checked it this morning. It's been restored. ...
By JM, February 26, 2024
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Free to Worship!
Listening to a CD of praise and worship songs as I worked in my kitchen one morning, I found my heart rejoicing in Jesus and my body dancing in joy and worship to Him. The CD I was listening to was an old one that a friend recently gave me with popular worship songs from […]
Bill Gothard’s Tornado That Didn’t Happen
May 2, 2008, marked a major milestone in my life. It was the end of my first year of college, and I had long planned a 50-mile bike ride to celebrate. That morning, however, tornado sirens started wailing and I was obliged to seek shelter. I didn’t think much of those tornado sirens until weeks […]
Life Focus: Isolation Instead of Relationship
As a teenager I was sent to an Advanced Training Institute (ATI) young men’s program called Life Focus. Life Focus was not explicitly advertised as a program for the troubled youth or “rebels” of ATI, but, functionally, that is what it was. The young men in Life Focus were regarded as and spoken to as […]
As the Pendulum Swings
When I look back at my parents’ decision to join the Advanced Training Institute (ATI), I think I can understand many of the reasons behind their choice. They first encountered Bill Gothard and the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) when their friends attended the Basic Seminar in the 1970s. A few years later, my […]
Is This the Gospel?
You know, I have seen so much in my 38 years. I have witnessed first-hand what false theology can do. Theology is the doctrine of God. It matters. How we view God determines how we treat one another and how we relate to the world around us. I am thankful for being taught about Jesus when I […]