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January 2016

January 18, 2016

Mary Lambert and the Ups and Downs of Being a Survivor

In the time I've spent around survivor communities, one thing I've noticed is an alternating...

January 07, 2016

A Summary of Allegations against Bill Gothard and IBLP

It has been nearly two years since Bill Gothard stepped down from leadership at his...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Jonathan and Alison Schumm Abuse Case Raises Questions

Given my interest in homeschool reform, I am familiar with many if not most of...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

Let’s Talk about Rachel Dolezal’s Parents

And perhaps that's what's bothering me about this story. Rachel's parents have been paraded and...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Fifty Shades of Disagreement: Evangelicals and Feminists on Fifty Shades of Grey

In general, the thing that has evangelicals up in arms over Fifty Shades of Grey...

February 13, 2015

The Pennington Point on Adult Children, Maturity, and Drivers Licenses

I wan't to be clear that this isn't an isolated thing. When a parent home...

February 12, 2015

The Tony Jones Affair: Releasing the Documents

It is up to other Emergent Christians to deal with this situation, because Tony Jones...

February 11, 2015

I Stand with Alecia Pennington

The more I read of Alecia's mother Lisa's blog, the more familiar it all felt,...

February 03, 2015

Bill Gothard Was Brought Down by a Blog: Thoughts on the “Proper” Channels for Making Abuse Allegations

Is a blog an acceptable place for making allegations of abuse against a prominent religious...

February 03, 2015

There Are No Good People, Only Good Actions

What you do with Rachel Held Evans' apology is up to you. But for me,...

February 03, 2015

Why We Need to Talk about Narcissism: Tony Jones Edition

I have grown increasingly uncomfortable with the Tony Jones situation over the last week, and...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

How HSLDA Talks About Abuse

And so, when I got to that part of HSLDA's statement, I wanted to tear...

January 22, 2015

On Responding to Abuse Allegations

It is easy to call out abuse carried out by your enemy, but far, far...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

The Longsuffering Godly Abused Wife

And so if it is already accepted that being a properly submissive wife is all...

September 2014

September 19, 2014

Adrian Peterson and Black Parenting

Several of my commenters have pointed out that there's a racial dimension important in understanding...

September 18, 2014

James Dobson and Adrian Peterson

Two days ago, Focus on the Family's Jared Pingleton condemned Adrian Peterson's abuse of his...

September 17, 2014

Failing to Understand the Dynamics of Abuse: Focus on the Family on Adrian Peterson and Corporal Punishment

Yesterday, Time Magazine's parenting section featured an article by Focus on the Family's Jered Pingleton....

August 2014

August 04, 2014

Israel Wayne on the (Patriarchal) Father’s Role

Israel Wayne is supposed to be a voice of reason in the Christian homeschooling community....

May 2014

May 29, 2014

That’s Some Accountability You’ve Got There

Evangelicals and fundamentalists would argue that the system of husbandly authority and wifely submission does...

May 28, 2014

Talking about Female-on-Male Domestic Violence

I recently came upon a video in an article titled This Is What Happens When...

April 2014

April 18, 2014

Shorter Bill Gothard: Playing Footsie Isn’t Sexual!

Does Gothard honestly expect anyone to believe that a 50 or 60-year-old man could play...

February 2014

February 17, 2014

Patrick Henry College’s Sexual Assault Problem

This morning the New Republic published Sexual Assault at God's Harvard, an article about how...

February 17, 2014

They called it “adultery” and made her confess

There is something perverse about treating adultery and child molestation as the same offense. Adultery...

February 13, 2014

“They said if you report it, you hurt the body of Christ”

You may have heard that Bob Jones University has fired GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse...

February 13, 2014

Bill Gothard: When People Know . . . and Do Nothing

Bill Gothard's behavior should never have been allowed to continue this long. It has only...

January 2014

January 06, 2014

In Which HSLDA Conducts a Child Abuse “Investigation”

If this is all HSLDA thinks is involved in determining whether or not child abuse...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

Doug Phillips’ Get Out of Jail Free Card

There is little that bothers me more than the excuse-making that comes out in full...

October 2013

October 20, 2013

Michael Pearl Is Not Original

Michael Pearl's To Train Up a Child is not original, not in the least. It's...

October 16, 2013

Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse Gets in the Way, Says WORLD Magazine’s Andrée Seu Peterson

Evangelicals have a child sexual abuse problem, but some of them don't seem to want...

September 2013

September 28, 2013

The Twisted Evil

I write a lot here on the blog about Debi Pearl's Created To Be His...