Reading Time: 5 minutes The Christian homeschool movement is part of a broader dominionist plan to conquer democracy in the name of Christian fundamentalism.
Bill Gothard
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‘Under Authority’: The law of crying out
Reading Time: 6 minutes Bill Gothard’s ideology of male supremacy is a monstrous doctrine, used to groom women to accept both sexual abuse and financial exploitation.
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‘Growing Up Gothard’: The man behind the Duggar throne
Reading Time: 5 minutes Bill Gothard, the Christian cult leader whose teachings the Duggars followed, preaches a worldview founded on absolute obedience, rigid gender roles, and violence as discipline.
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Discipling: What It Is and Why It Won’t Save the SBC
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! Recently, I mentioned that a lot of Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leaders have pushed very hard for discipling as the surefire fix for their denomination’s 50-year-long decline. If conversions amount to the sales end of their evangelism process, then discipling functions as retention. However, despite being totally convinced for years that discipling can fix everything wrong with […]
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Nobody Signs Up For the UYC (Chat Post #3)
Reading Time: 12 minutes Let me tell you about the very night that my then-husband Biff realized that yes, I had completely deconverted, making us unequally yoked. Along the way, I’ll show you why my deconversion proved to be such an insurmountable problem for us.
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The Price of the Shining Wire: Evangelicals’ False Promise of Safety
Reading Time: 12 minutes When we believed, we pretended to live in perfect safety, like we curled up in the palms of our god’s hands–just like the rabbits of one warren in Watership Down. In reality, however, we lived in the enemy’s warren. And we paid the price of the shining wire.
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If Only Gary Smalley’s Fans Knew (What a Hypocrite He Was)
Reading Time: 12 minutes As I read this book, I began noticing a lot of problems with it. The most disturbing of those problems must surely be Gary Smalley’s own descriptions of his own behavior in his own marriage. Today, let me show you why nobody should consider this charlatan any kind of authority about marriage.
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If Only He Knew: The Huckster Fleecing These Sheep
Reading Time: 8 minutes Over the next week, I’ll show you just why Christian marriage advice is so pathetically awful. Today, we kick off the slumber party with a look at the author of If Only He Knew, and get an overview of what this book offers.
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The Love/Life Principles Seminar and the Horrendous Friendship Kablooie
Reading Time: 11 minutes If anything, we discover that the more extremist the flavor of Christianity is, the less effective and useful its teachings about anything will be–and in fundagelicalism especially, their social teachings actually backfire. Today I’ll show you how.
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And Speaking of Josh Duggar: The (Second) Fake Rehab Center He’s Going To.
Reading Time: 6 minutes One definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.” It’s simply dismaying–if not infuriating–to see that charlatans-for-Christ can prey upon unwary and gullible flocks by offering them real solutions for serious problems–and I think we can all agree that Josh Duggar has some very serious problems.