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Their Day in Court: Part Three
February 22, 2019 // 144 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 // 186 Comments -
Rethinking the Nativity
December 25, 2016 // 144 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 // 601 Comments -
Bill’s Cabin: Uncovering Sin
May 21, 2014 // 475 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 // 405 Comments
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JM that is all I replied to was about music. You ...
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Who could oppose Christmas year-round? It's the op ...
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Let's keep it all about music, shall we? Let's not ...
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You are giving too much credence to their argument ...
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Then there are those of us who never take the stuf ...
By JM, May 17, 2022 -
I think you're missing entirely what I have said a ...
By JM, May 17, 2022 -
Bill Gothard seemed to like bold innovation, so wi ...
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Ok JM, I never heard of David Cloud so I made the ...
By rob war, May 16, 2022 -
That sounds very fair, and I appreciate it. It mig ...
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Brother JM, Bill Gothard designed ATI as “unsch ...
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The sad thing is. . .I don't really know what the ...
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I certainly can't speak for a lot of conservative ...
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This really proves that the 37 year ATI run was no ...
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You already know the answer to this. No credible m ...
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Nearly four years later, and I am still wondering. ...
By JM, May 13, 2022 -
You know, I love these posts. I've been reading th ...
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I believe that is correct. They decided to get out ...
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Is the ATI program over? https://atii.org/ lo ...
By rob war, May 12, 2022
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Rethinking the Nativity

*Reposted from the original Rethinking the Nativity on Djibouti Jones and shared on A Life Overseas. It is a thought provoking and eye opening look at the culture around the time when Christ was born and truly shows the GRACE of His Story! ——————————- I am tired of the Christmas story. Clarification: I’m tired of […]
The Truth About God’s Justice

I grew up afraid of God’s justice. Though my parents were well-balanced in meting out mercy and discipline (very well-balanced considering we went to a Gothardite church), I always imagined God coming down from heaven with a sword of justice in hand, ready to punish all of us for our sins. He had just enough […]
Speaking Up Late in the Day

Over the past two weeks and previous two Aprils, Recovering Grace has focused on personal narratives by former Advanced Training Institute (ATI) alumni who endured sexual assault, abuse, or harassment in the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) subculture, sometimes within a context of broader physical abuse, and almost always within a context of spiritual […]
Twelve Characteristics of Fundamentalist Societies that Shelter Sexual Abuse

How could he have fooled so many people, so thoroughly? How did the abuse go on for so many years, unacknowledged? Whenever a leader at this level is ousted or steps down, questions like these come to mind. In the wake of revelations of sexual harassment and abuse pouring in from survivors of Bill Gothard’s […]
To My Daughter

After being in ATI for 10 years and now out for the last 13 years, I am finding the need to say some things to our oldest daughter. She was our “guinea pig,” the one from whom we learned the most and the one upon whom we tried the most. She was with us from start […]
Stolen Treasures

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published on March 11, 2013. A recent article on Recovering Grace, entitled “Moving On,” prompted me to think about the reason it is so difficult to move forward after being victimized by legalism. As I have worked with those hurt by legalism over the years, I have often heard stories about what […]
Sacred Grooming, Part Four: A Secretary’s Account of Life With Bill Gothard

[Editor’s Note: The young woman referred to only as “she” and “her” in the following account is the author herself, “Meg,” but she has written it in the third person. The author was twenty years old during the events in this post. The following is a true story. Click here for Part One of Meg’s […]
What My Parents Did Right

You know the old saying as well as I do about hindsight being 20/20. This is because it’s really very easy to look back on the past and criticize others’ actions. I’m pretty sure people have been doing this from time immemorial. In fact, it’s quite likely that either Eve or Adam turned to the […]