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Their Day in Court: Part Three
February 22, 2019 // 140 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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Brother JM, Bill Gothard designed ATI as “unsch ...
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The sad thing is. . .I don't really know what the ...
By JM, May 16, 2022 -
I certainly can't speak for a lot of conservative ...
By JM, May 16, 2022 -
This really proves that the 37 year ATI run was no ...
By rob war, May 13, 2022 -
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 ...
By JM, September 6, 2021 -
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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Stolen Dreams

Through IBLP and his “homeschool” program (the Advanced Training Institute), Bill Gothard stifled hundreds of dreams in the name of godly living. As the first wave of apprenticeship students reached teenager-hood beginning in the 1990s, all of us naturally needed to explore and develop our own gifts. But as we sat through Gothard’s sessions in […]
What Sexual Abuse Counseling Can Do to Help You

Christians and psychotherapy haven’t always had the best relationship. Growing up as I did, adjacent to cultural fundamentalists, I absorbed the following dominant assumptions: You don’t need counseling if you have Jesus. Counselors disapprove of homeschooling and Christianity and might want to take you away from your parents. The only good counselor is a Christian […]
Belonging

In groups like the Advanced Training Institute, we have an identity and a community. We might not always like it, but it gives us a level of security. We are surrounded by people who think like us. We speak a different language from other people around us, using words like “courtship,” “motivational gift,” “rhema” and […]
You Cannot Pay With Words

My story is about a leader maintaining a double life for decades and then demanding to pay for his deeds with words and tears. He is outwardly sorrowful that his words and favor are no longer valid currency. My parents were regional and state leaders in the homeschooling movement for years before we joined the […]
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 […]
Readings on Acknowledging and Healing from Sexual Abuse

Below are some links to readings that members of our community have found helpful on their paths to healing from physical and sexual abuse, especially abuse suffered at the hands of family members, authority figures, and other trusted individuals. In A Theology of Sexual Abuse: A Reflection on Creation and Devastation, Dr. Andrew Schmutzer describes […]