Year: 2018

In a prior article called “Bill and the Beautiful Ones” we explored reasons why Bill Gothard has at times focused on attractive young people, especially young women, in the counseling ministry.  As we discussed these things with him at length he gave us his perspectives on this, and just this week wrote out an article […]

A persistent complaint against Bill Gothard over the span of his entire ministry is the extra attention and honor he provides to “beautiful people”, especially young women. Many have noted that, out of a group he will invariably single out the most attractive and focus considerable time and effort on them.  In our modern day […]

Last Monday Bill Gothard went down to Texas to the 2018 annual Big Sandy ATI conference.  Bill is currently estranged from IBLP, the ministry he founded, as the Board of Directors received accusations made against him four years ago by disgruntled former students in his ATI (Advanced Training Institute)   The $8 million dollar, 17 […]

Recovering Grace, the website forum founded by disgruntled former ATI students 6 or so years ago recently released a statement  on the dismissal of the 17 lawsuits which their fervent efforts represented a culmination of. Since many of the members of this team were banned from commenting there by way of response, we will make […]

One of the “Jane Doe’s” in the recently dismissed lawsuit, Emily Jaeger, posted a personal statement on Spiritual Sounding Board besides the general statement presented by all the former plaintiffs. Bill contacted us and asked if we would post his response. It is provided below:   Response to Emily Jaeger Dear Emily, After reading your […]

And, just like that . . . It is over. On February 26th, 2018 at 9:00am the final gavel fell on the lawsuit against Bill Gothard and IBLP that has consumed the attention of so many of us for the past 2 years. All remaining plaintiffs – 12 at this point – filed paperwork to […]