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Seen "Shiny Happy People?"
May 31, 2023 // 74 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 // 605 Comments -
Bill’s Cabin: Uncovering Sin
May 21, 2014 // 477 Comments -
How the Teachings of Emotional Purity and Courtship Dam ...
July 22, 2011 // 432 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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I watched Shiny Happy People and I was a fan of th ...
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Are you sure about every allegations? Isabel who w ...
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Me too. It's crazy. Alert academy which is bill go ...
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I'm shocked after watching all the episodes to fin ...
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Thank u, well said, and Biblical
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I think there are probably thousands of us with st ...
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Also, did anyone not attend the Bill Gothard semin ...
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As my husband and I were both exposed to Gothard’s ...
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I am watching this right now and this is my story. ...
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OMG- a boy asking a girl to eat lunch with him OH ...
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I was in ATI from '85 until I graduated in '97, so ...
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Keep speaking up. People are listening. I hope y ...
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I was raised in the Bill Gothard way, as one of 8 ...
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Homeschool mom - son for 4 yrs. 2005, daughter for ...
By Lisa L. M., June 7, 2023
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If Mama Ain’t Happy . . .

I was in high school when I first went to a Basic and Advanced Seminar, and my family enrolled in the Advanced Training Institute (ATI) homeschool program. Prior to that, my folks hadn’t attended a Basic Seminar in nearly a decade. While they appreciated what they had learned the first time around, they didn’t implement […]
Life Unexpected

Having been raised for 13 years in the Advanced Training Institute (ATI) home school program I was confident of a successful marriage. I followed the formula. I waited for God’s Best. I saved my first kiss until after engagement (though I’m sure I should have saved it for the wedding day). I had my parents’ […]
Open Letter To My Mother

When we were children, you followed Bill Gothard’s teaching about being “a light to the world” and forced your kids to wear matching clothes every time we left home. This made it difficult to develop my own identity. When we weren’t allowed to watch television because Gothard said it was a “corrupting influence,” I didn’t […]