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Bill Gothard

Religion Dispatches
Conservative Christian social media influencers have an important message to deliver after a new documentary about the Duggar family thrust the conservative Christian Institute in Basic Life…
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Religion Dispatches
Last Thursday, Josh Duggar’s sexual misconduct once again brought his reality TV-famous family into the spotlight. The 33-year-old was arrested Thursday on federal charges of receiving and possessing…
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Amidst shocking allegations that Roy Moore pursued relationships with girls ranging in age from 14-18 years old when he was in his 30s, a new poll shows that 37% of evangelicals are “more likely” to…
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Pending dystopia, it appears, is in the eye of the beholder. Here at RD, Diane Winston notes that Vice President Mike Pence makes a chilling stand-in for the “Commander” in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid…
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Now that the sexual abuse allegations against Josh Duggar have resurfaced and made the news, many people are inquiring whether the Duggars’ belief system perpetuates sexual abuse. In light of other…
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Mother Jones’ David Corn and Molly Redden report on the relationship between the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and the disgraced former leader of the Institute in Basic Life…
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How a culture enabled the abuse.
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Religion Dispatches
Why Uncle Sugar threatens Mike Huckabee’s religiously conceived masculinity.
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According to a recent essay by Sen. John Danforth, she just doesn’t, so it’s not.
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Religion Dispatches
“Seven kids! Seven kids!” one woman exlaimed at a Rick Santorum rally in Louisiana on March 21, when organizers asked people to say what they liked most about the ultra-conservative Catholic, homeschooling presidential candidate.
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