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Their Day in Court: Part Three
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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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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 ...
By rob war, May 13, 2022 -
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 ...
By JM, May 13, 2022 -
I believe that is correct. They decided to get out ...
By JM, May 13, 2022 -
Is the ATI program over? https://atii.org/ lo ...
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I never called the Duggars wicked people nor have ...
By rob war, September 13, 2021 -
Late response I know. But I kinda take the opp ...
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I hope TLC will finally pull the plug on these peo ...
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Another Bill Gothard protégé continues to make new ...
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Thanks so much for posting this link Kevin. I hadn ...
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I know this is an old article, but thank you so mu ...
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Listen to Emily tell her story on this podcast. I ...
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I understand many people fall into this kind of co ...
By Anthony E., October 29, 2020
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IBYC Board Minutes 1977-1980

For readers interested in the corporate governance of the Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts (IBYC, now IBLP, Institute in Basic Life Principles) during the period leading up to and through the Scandal of 1980, the minutes from Board of Directors meetings are attached. Some names have been redacted, including those of victims caught up in the […]
The Package: Bill Gothard and His Children

Bill Gothard and His Children: The Unauthorized Short Biography Image of envelope copyright: kchung / 123RF Stock Photo
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 Basic Life Principles (IBLP) to evaluate the teachings that are “at least partly responsible for the recurring moral failures of Bill Gothard and other IBLP leaders.” This call was posted […]
The Package: Bill Gothard’s Knowledge of Sin

Detailed Knowledge Summary Bill Gothard has denied publicly — for 34 years — that he ever had any knowledge of any details of immorality before April of 1980 (the first time that Tony asked to meet Bill privately with a report of what was being discovered). Gothard has made this denial to the […]
IBYC According to Bryen – 1975

In hindsight, David R. Bryen’s thesis is remarkably accurate on many counts. Published in 1975 and titled “An Evaluation of the Theological, Hermeneutical and Psychological Assumptions of the Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts,” this 126-page document was an unprecedented analysis of Gothard’s teachings. Why was Bryen so well aware of the dangers of Bill Gothard’s teachings […]
If Bill Gothard Is Wrong, Then What’s Right?

by Don Veinot on May 8, 2014 When I posted Is Jesus a Sinner According to Bill Gothard’s Teachings? a few weeks back I could vividly recall Bill Gothard’s question to me the first time I went through the ramifications of his teaching with him. His response was, “Are you saying there is no authority over the wife and […]
Is Jesus a Sinner According to Bill Gothard’s Teachings?

by Don Veinot on April 3rd, 2014 We often receive questions by mail, phone and email about Bill Gothard’s teaching on authority, which at one time was “Chain of Command” and later renamed “Umbrella of Protection.” Obviously the latter sounds more benign than the former, but they essentially come down to the same thing. Who is the […]
Bury My Umbrella at Wounded Knee

By Joel Crosby (1973) The Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts is an amazing phenomenon. It seems to run almost totally against the grain of our current culture. In an age of multi-media, strobe lights and fast-moving entertainment, Basic Youth Conflicts is thirty-five hours of straight lecture. Charisma, excitement and the spectacular dominate our society while […]
There Is No Victim: A Survey of IBLP Literature on Sexual Assault and Abuse

Today, Recovering Grace looks at past Advanced Training Institute (ATI) and Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) materials that address the topics of sexual abuse, child molestation within a nuclear family, and domestic violence. This is not presented as an exhaustive survey, but is the full range of printed Institute material on these topics that […]
Fellow Fundamentalists Denounced Gothard’s “Chain of Command” (1974)

In the November 1974 issue of “The Projector,” a newsletter for Christian Fundamentalists, editor Dr. Dayton Hobbs challenged Bill Gothard’s “Chain of Command.” You can read the entire issue here: http://www.theprojector.org/projectors/nov1974.pdf As with most issues of “The Projector,” much attention is given to separation from non-fundamentalist influences. (Dr. Hobbs did not foresee how severely Gothard […]