Sexism and Homeschooling: Maya’s Story

CC image courtesy of Pixabay, Animus Photograpy. Trigger warning: Detailed descriptions of abuse. HA note: The author’s name has been changed to ensure anonymity. “Maya” is a pseudonym. I don’t even know how to begin to explain myself. Here I am sitting in the place I am forced by income and circumstance to live in (my parents’ home) outing myself

One Ticket to the Gray Havens, Please: Marais’s Story

  CC image courtesy of Pixabay, Animus Photograpy. HA note: The author’s name has been changed to ensure anonymity. “Marais” is a pseudonym. My pseudonym is Marais. I am 17 years old. This is what happened to me when I was 12-14. I was part of a not-very-well-known homeschool group called Regina Coeli that was part of a bigger religious

Trans In Hiding: Lyle’s Story

“Do you want to go to counselling?” my mom asked.

She asked this after she and my dad had spent at least two hours interrogating me on my faith, the most terrifying conversation I’d ever had. At seventeen, I’d tried my best to explain my own agnosticism through tears, saying how I never truly believed what they did. I hadn’t come out as trans, but coming out as non-Christian alone proved to be terrifying.

Three Words: Shade’s Story

i am trans.

three little words that carry the weight of my being. three little words that have taken me a long time to say.

Worksheet Claims That God Allows Sexual Abuse: Part IV

TW: Content discusses rape, and other forms of abuse. CC image courtesy of Flickr, andy li. Recently Homeschoolers Anonymous was given access to a worksheet from The Institute of Basic Life Principles‘ training center. It is titled ”Why Did God Let A Four Year Old Boy Be Molested By A Fifteen Year Old Neighbor?’. The Institute of Basic Life Principles

Worksheet Claims That God Allows Sexual Abuse: Part III

TW: Content discusses rape, and other forms of abuse. CC image courtesy of Flickr, andy li. Recently Homeschoolers Anonymous was given access to a worksheet from The Institute of Basic Life Principles‘ training center. It is titled ”Why Did God Let A Four Year Old Boy Be Molested By A Fifteen Year Old Neighbor?’. The Institute of Basic Life Principles

Worksheet Claims That God Allows Sexual Abuse: Part II

TW: Content discusses rape, and other forms of abuse. CC image courtesy of Flickr, andy li. Recently Homeschoolers Anonymous was given access to a worksheet from The Institute of Basic Life Principles‘ training center. It is titled ”Why Did God Let A Four Year Old Boy Be Molested By A Fifteen Year Old Neighbor?’. The Institute of Basic Life Principles

Gothard Explains Why God Allows Child Molestation: Part I

TW: Content discusses rape, and other forms of abuse. CC image courtesy of Flickr, andy li. Continued in Part II and Part III, and Part IV. Recently, Homeschoolers Anonymous was given access to a worksheet from The Institute of Basic Life Principles‘ training center. It is titled ”Why Did God Let A Four Year Old Boy Be Molested By A

Savannah’s Story: Republicanity (or, When Politics Is Your Religion)

“Some adults may genuinely believe that the rest of the world is out to persecute them, and the rest may just be bigots, but children—children are oblivious. Innocent. Children are told what to believe and they believe it until they learn to question when they are older, if at all. When you tell a young child that a certain kind of person wants to kill them, they do not have the ability to think it through and weigh the evidence. They simply trust you.”

Bill Gothard Claims to have Secret Cure for Mental Illness

Rather, to solve mental illness, he suggests, one must do something much more significant to one’s “gut brains” than use FDA approved medication