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Their Day in Court: Part Three
February 22, 2019 // 111 Comments -
Their Day in Court: Part Two
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Their Day in Court: Part One
February 22, 2019 // 0 Comments -
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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I hope that you are all doing well and staying hea ...
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thank-you for the review of your notes, they give ...
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What else did she say? (From my notes) Actual a ...
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I'm not following what "motives" have to do with B ...
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I was aware of the Marcion tenets mentioned: she h ...
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Marcion's heresies is much more than just a "rejec ...
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It is impossible to predict exactly how and when I ...
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They may be borrowing a page or pages from critics ...
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Whether these facts are significant or not: free ...
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Yes, lets hope so. However, this is the lentiest l ...
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Rob, Per your comment about IBLP, I noticed on th ...
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There is a quote from the 11th century that I find ...
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Acts 17:26-27 (ESV) are currently my life verses f ...
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"such material" IBLP material that is.
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I believe that I have been there, making an idol o ...
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"Those that long to see the Kingdom of God come, a ...
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You do realize that the same person that runs DG a ...
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Do they realize the exact problem Bill has is that ...
March 20, 2020
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What’s Wrong with Guarding your Heart?
I was raised in an ultra-Conservative Christian homeschool environment, during what I consider the heyday of the “guard your heart”/purity/courtship movement (90s and early 2000s). Needless to say, that teaching affected and continues to affect me deeply. What started out as a (presumably) well-intentioned effort by parents to prevent their children from experiencing pain, has […]
Life Isn’t a Role-Playing Game: Part Three
This is Part Three of a three-part personal story. Click here to read Part One; Click here to read Part Two. After much thought and prayer, I settled on pursuing a marketing degree at a local, small Christian engineering and flight school called LeTourneau University. Most of my first two years were spent obsessed with […]
Life Isn’t a Role-Playing Game: Part Two
This is Part Two of a three-part story. Click here to read Part One. During my early high school years, I was very blessed to find an incredible youth group with leaders who valued relationships over rules and encouraged guys and girls to know each other more intimately as friends instead of remaining isolated from […]
Why Be a World Changer?
Am I the only one who gets triggered by the idea of being a world changer? My news feed is full of calls to be a world changer — all from different camps. One is from the “Truth Project,” another from IHOP (the ministry, not the restaurant), another from YWAM, another from…. well, I could […]
Here’s The Courtship; Where’s The Love?
When I was twelve, my parents came home and said, “Just so you know, you’re never going to be allowed to date.” This was fine by me; I was more into books than socializing. In fact, although I had a speech prepared on why I didn’t date, I never did get to use it. Still […]
Sensitivity vs. Callousness
Callousness Sometimes Won The leadership at Advanced Training Institute (ATI) training centers could be incredibly insensitive in dealing with personal tragedies and misfortunes. Especially if those situations affected, in any way, the performance of one’s duties at the training center. Sometimes, just the fear that leadership would misunderstand or react insensitively to a situation could […]
Breeding Relational Immaturity
It is no secret that Bill Gothard and the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) have a bizarre outlook on male/female relationships. In a world where falling in love means losing a piece of your heart forever, relationships are a spiritual distraction, and in a place where marriage is a last resort, it is no […]
Dividing Sister and Brother
The cardinal rule for those who live and work at Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) training centers is that unmarried persons of opposite genders do not mix. They especially do not “single each other out” or show any form of affection to one another. In some ways, this is perfectly understandable: you can hardly […]
