Four of the Jackson Brothers Plead Guilty in Incest, Rape Case

Last week, four members of the Jackson family from North Carolina — who hid child sexual abuse within their homeschooling family for over a decade — pleaded guilty to charges against them.

This is What Child Abusers Look Like in Homeschooling Communities

We like to think that we know what child abusers look like. But stereotypes are just stereotypes.

Christian Patriarchy Just Made WORLD Magazine $11,200 Richer

“In WORLD’s most recent print edition, their ‘2014 Books Issue,’ the magazine features two full page ads for the biggest names in Christian Patriarchy.”

Christian Patriarchy is Alive and Well: NCFIC’s Scott Brown Moves to Fill the Void

With the demise of Vision Forum Ministries and the vacancy left by Doug Phillips after the public disclosure of his sexual immorality, the most likely candidate has stepped up to the plate to fill that void: Scott Brown. Scott Brown is the director of National Center for Family Integrated Churches (NCFIC), which was originally part of Vision Forum Ministries.

Peter Bradrick, Former Executive Assistant to Doug Phillips, Speaks Out on Being “Formally Disowned” and “Declared to be a Destroyer”

“For those of you who aren’t entirely up to speed, Peter Bradrick is a Vision Forum intern turned executive assistant to Doug Phillips… He was involved in their “Hazardous Journeys” trips, and was pretty much BFFs with Doug. He’s married to the daughter of Scott Brown (not the politician, the one who’s head of the National Center for Family Integrated Churches, an organization that Doug was on the board of until his scandal broke). Anyway, everybody close to Doug and Vision Forum—Peter included—have been tight-lipped about Doug’s affair and the closing of Vision Forum Ministries. Tight-lipped until now, that is.”

Rewriting History — The History of America Mega-Conference: Part Three, “Religious Liberalism” And Those Magnificent Mathers

“I can accept the idea that the Mathers longed to do well by their children and grandchildren, striving to raise them well and encouraging other parents to do the same. Given Increase and Cotton Mather’s ties to witchcraft myths and the Salem Witch Trials, however, I draw a different conclusion from their lives.”

Vision Forum and “Historical Revisionism”

“Did I mention that Vision Forum only sells a grey civil war cap, and not a blue one? Or that their description of a Civil War history tour is a bit, well, one-sided? And then of course there’s this picture of Doug Phillips’ son posing in front of a monument to the founder of the KKK and the racist blackface knickknack in the Phillips’ home.”