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November 2016

November 01, 2016

Is the Enemy of My Enemy My Friend? Trump Edition

Farris is one of a dwindling number of Christian Right bigwigs to not endorse Donald...

September 2016

September 08, 2016

How Michael Farris Cons Christian Families into Homeschooling

Let me touch on a few points and then get down to what I see...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Michael Farris Calls for Closing Doors to Syrian Refugees

Today, I am sad. I am sad for France, and I am sad for the...

August 2015

August 03, 2015

Michael Farris Doesn’t Read the Bible (Apparently)

As a young woman with a good Christian upbringing rich in Bible reading and memorization,...

January 2015

January 18, 2015

Michael Farris’s Selective Interest in Protecting Children

Farris is horrified by the strip search he describes not because of the harm to...

January 12, 2015

Voddie Baucham, Daughters, and “Virgin Brides”

Last summer Farris issued a white paper that allowed him to throw Gothard and Phillips...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

The Gothard-Sized Skeleton in HSLDA’s Closet

I have just two questions: First, what time frame does "for several years" imply? Second,...

September 02, 2014

Why It Matters That Farris Strawmanned Patriarchy

I would say that it would help if Farris would come clean and admit that...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

The Binary Is Collapsing

I will continue to hold Farris to his word, and to ask questions where his...

August 27, 2014

Patriarchy: What’s in a Word?

Today Michael Farris published a white paper titled "A Line in the Sand." In it,...

June 2014

June 04, 2014

Farris: Patriarchy Makes Kids Gays and Atheists

If you read my blog, you're probably aware of the Christian homeschooling subculture's patriarchy problem....

April 2014

April 22, 2014

Is the Christian Homeschool World Really Changing?

I wonder how far Christian homeschooling will change over all of this, and whether that...

April 17, 2014

You Don’t Say, Mr. Farris? On Making Exemptions

Baucham is one of the leaders of patriarchy movement that grew out of the Christian...

April 16, 2014

Michael Farris Admits He Messed Up

I actually think Farris means this. I actually think he realizes he should have spoken...

April 15, 2014

Michael Farris, Patriarchy, and Doug Phillips: An Expose

The article I linked yesterday quotes at length from Michael Farris's reaction to Doug Phillips...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Patrick Henry College: Claims to be Anti-Quiverfull, Invites Quiverfull Speaker

If Michael Farris and the administration of Patrick Henry College have decided to reject the...

February 18, 2014

Michael Farris Responds to the New Republic

Even in this statement calling out their failings Farris does not name Gothard or Phillips....

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...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

We Were Told To Do Hard Things. Well, We Are.

Ryan Stollar's recent blog post, "Why I Am a Radical Activist for All Things Evil,"...

January 19, 2014

Oscar Nominated “Alone But Not Alone”: A Product of the Doug Phillips / Michael Farris Empire

Alone Yet Not Alone, based on a book about two children who were kidnapped by...

November 2013

November 12, 2013

A Call for Action: Ratify the UN CRPD!

In the past two posts, guest contributor Rachel Lazerus has examined Michael Farris' recent testimony...

November 12, 2013

Michael Farris’s Lies, Damned Lies, and Bad Sources: Testimony before the Senate on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Part 2

Out of my desire to understand his reasoning, I looked up Farris’s citations and read...

September 2013

September 11, 2013

The Twelve Tribes, Child Abuse, and Michael Farris

Last week Germany authorities removed the children of the Twelve Tribes sect upon accusations of...

March 2013

March 07, 2013

Homeschooling under the Influence

After I wrote my posts on academics and socialization, I realized that there is another...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

Patrick Henry College, Homeschool Bastion, Has LGBT Group

Now this is interesting. Patrick Henry College, founded by Home School Legal Defense Association founder...