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Doug Phillips Being Sued By Former Nanny

By Hermana Linda | April 15, 2014 |

Doug Phillips stepped down last October after admitting to an inappropriate relationship with a woman. On March 27, the Christian Post reported that he was threatening his closest friends of conspiring to destroy him. On April 14, WND reported that Lourdes Torres, Doug Phillips former nanny, was suing him. Vision Forum denied the allegations on…

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Vision Forum: Peter Bradrick Speaks

By Hermana Linda | November 30, 2013 |

Peter Bradrick, once very close to Doug Phillips, has broken his silence. While we still have more questions than answers, this development is very much of interest to those who are following the Vision Forum saga. Doug Phillips: “Disowns” Former Vision Forum Executive Assistant to President, Peter Bradrick, Calls Him “Destroyer” When Confronted about Sins…

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Vision Forum Ministry Closed

By Hermana Linda | November 11, 2013 |

Spiritual Sounding Board tells us that The Board of Vision Forum Ministries Announced the Closing of Vision Forum Ministries. Again, this is the Non Profit Ministry. It is business as usual at the For Profit side of Vision Forum. Here are some news stories and blogs about this story. I will add more as I…

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A Warning About Extreme Submission

By Hermana Linda | May 14, 2012 |

Mrs. Jacks shares her testimony of How Submission Books Nearly Ruined her Marriage. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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The Vision Forum’s Tenets of Biblical Patriarchy, 16-21: Education, Transformation, and Control

By Jenny Islander | January 13, 2012 |

Note: This is an edited and collated version of a series of posts that I made at Free Jinger in August 2011. For much of my life, my encounters with U.S. fundamentalist Christianity were sporadic and bewildering. I started digging into the roots of the fundamentalist mindset when I became a homeschooler and a Sunday…

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The Nicest People

By Hermana Linda | November 24, 2011 |

What kind of people start (or join) cults? What is their motivation? Do they do it on purpose or by accident? Do they have any idea that they are involved with a cult? If these questions interest you, you will want to read this post by Cindy of Under Much Grace Hank Hanegraaff and the…

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Wartburg Watch Looks at Vision Forum

By Hermana Linda | October 24, 2011 |

Wartburg Watch has posted a series on Vision Forum and Patriarchy which some of you might find interesting. Homeschooling Hijackers mentions at Doug Phillips, Voddie Baucham and Scott Brown. What Are Family Integrated Churches? mentions ThatMom and the family-integrated church (FIC) movement. NCFIC, Vision Forum, and the Bottom Line discusses the history of Vision Forum…

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Exposing False Teachings

By Hermana Linda | August 13, 2011 |

I just found an interesting site, Midwest Christian Outreach devoted to exposing false teachings. They have an article about Bill Gothard and ATIdentity. More on Bill Gothard Vision Forum and Patriarchy Speaking of Bill Gothard, some of my newer readers might have missed Greenegem’s post about Scriptural Tofurkey. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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Recovering Grace from Bill Gothard

By Hermana Linda | August 10, 2011 |

I was not aware that there is a site devoted to Shedding Light On The Teachings of IBLP and ATI (Bill Gothard’s Teachings.) These sites are popping up faster than I can keep track of them, Praise the Lord. I don’t have enough categories for all these abusive teachings, just tags, so I’m happy to…

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Two More New Blogs

By Hermana Linda | August 9, 2011 |

Here are 2 blogs which I think might be of interest: Rethinking Vision Forum looks like the place to send anyone who has questions about Vision Forum. It is all about “Examining the Fallacies of Vision Forum’s ‘Godly’ Family Living.” Since this blog links to the series to which I used to link in my…

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Is College Wasted on Girls?

By Hermana Linda | July 1, 2011 |

Pfamilygal takes very practical and down to earth look at what the Bible teaches regarding whether or not daughters should be College Bound. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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Renouncing Patriocentric Teachings

By Hermana Linda | June 6, 2011 |

pFamilyGal renounces her belief in patriocentric teachings and explains why in Freeeeedoooom. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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Memories of a Child Raised by the Pearl Method

By Hermana Linda | April 11, 2011 |

No Longer Quivering has started a new story by Libby Anne about her childhood in which she was raised by the Pearl Method. In part 1 she tells about how her mother almost killed her little sister by strict adherence to the Pearl Method. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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Speaking Out Against Patriarchy

By Hermana Linda | February 26, 2011 |

Here is Rebecca Diamond’s testimony and explanation of what she has against Patriarchy. Note to the easily offended: she does give this post a PG-13 rating. And here is an exposé of the dark underbelly of the Father and Daughter Retreat offered by Vision forum. This is not for the faint of heart. For your…

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An Exposé of the Courtship & Betrothal Movements

By Hermana Linda | February 21, 2011 |

I tended to think that the Patriarchy Movement and the Quiverfull Movement were pretty much the same thing, but I was wrong. The Quiverfull movement falls under Patriarchy or Patriocentric teachings, but not everyone in those movements is Quiverfull. There is also the Courtship and Betrothal Movements which do allow the limiting children, but are…

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Series about Patriarchy

By Hermana Linda | December 4, 2010 |

E. Stephen Burnett has a teaching about the problems with Patriarchy in a 5 part series called, Sins Of The ‘Patriarchs’. Interesting to me is that with all the words he has written about patriarchy, he never mentions spanking or harsh discipline. He does mention control, but not the physical aspect (unless I’m misremembering.) This…

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Series about Vision Forum

By Hermana Linda | November 26, 2010 |

Sue Talbert at A Mother’s Heart Blog is writing a very interesting series called Vision Forum, Patriarchy and FLDS, Oh My! In part 1 she explains how she came to find Vision Forum and read one of their books. She starts describing some objections to their teachings. In Part 2 she expands on their teachings…

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Dolly Mama

By Hermana Linda | November 5, 2010 |

Since yesterday’s post was about Patriocentricity and I have this link which mentions Debi Pearl, I might as well share it. Dolly Mama writes about some parallels she sees between the FLDS movement and the patriocentric movement in Escape, FLDS, and some parallels. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit

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