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July 2015

July 09, 2015

Sexual Predator Bill Gothard Defends Josh Duggar

I suppose it's not surprising that Gothard is defending Josh, given that his own actions...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Josh was “Just Curious about Girls” and the Rank Hypocrisy of the Duggar Excuse Machine

As someone who went through a controlling and manipulative courtship process and then lived in...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

It Took This for People to Listen?

None of this is anything I haven't said before! And it's not just me---dozens of...

May 27, 2015

Josh Duggar’s Lies, Damn Lies, and Half Truths

Over and over and over again over the past week I have heard bloggers and...

May 27, 2015

How Christian Culture Excuses Sex Offenders

I've spent years now blogging, watching sexual abuse scandals pop up and seeing the same...

May 26, 2015

Chris Hayes and Dan Savage Cover the Duggar Scandal

I share this video because it's some of the best news coverage of the Duggar...

May 26, 2015

Why Josh Duggar’s “Teenage Mistakes” Matter

I've seen a lot of people say that everyone made "teenage mistakes," that Josh's apology...

May 23, 2015

Anna Duggar and the Silencing Power of Forgiveness

I have been coming upon more and more truly excellent commentary in the aftermath of...

May 22, 2015

What Did Josh Duggar’s Counseling Look Like?

This is why it is so troubling that Josh and his victims appear to have...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

How Not To Combat Sexual Abuse

Next week Frontline Family Ministries is holding National Sexual Abuse Prevention Week for Homeschoolers. You...

July 2014

July 01, 2014

“Everybody Has a Past”

I recently came upon an article by Boz Tchividijian about a church that hired a...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Business as Usual for IBLP

Oh dear. The Board of Directors for the Institute for Basic Life Principles, formerly run...

June 19, 2014

When Evangelicalism Makes Things Easy for Sexual Offenders—and Hard for Their Victims

Evangelical teachings on repentance and forgiveness create a tremendous problem when it comes to rape...

June 16, 2014

The Other Stories

Have you ever read a books where each chapter is written from the perspective of...

June 12, 2014

Christianity Today Publishes a Rapists’ Story

Remember when the Good Man Project posted an article by an unrepentant rapist, supposedly as...

May 2014

May 21, 2014

Debi Pearl Defends Bill Gothard

In their books and on their blog, Michael and Debi have generally taken a hard...

October 2013

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...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

How Sex Offenders Return to the Pulpit

I've recently come upon several stories about pastors who have either been accused of or...

May 2012

May 05, 2012

More on excuses made for child molesters

A few days ago I put up a post looking at the excuses some conservative...

April 2012

April 28, 2012

Sex Abuse, the First Stone, Judge Not, and All That

On Sunday I put up a post about Voice of the Martyrs' president, Tom White,...

April 24, 2012

Worthwhile Reads: Bill Gothard, ATI, and Sexual Abuse

Recovering Grace has been doing a series on sexual abuse. Most of the stories involve...

April 22, 2012

The Hypocrisy Burns: Voice of the Martyrs’ Tom White

While we're most aware of the Catholic sex abuse cases, this sort of thing is...