What a Creep
Season 31, Episode 2
Bill Gothard, founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles

Kristen Meinzer from The Nighty on Hatch Plus and Health Matters from the Mayo Clinic joins Sonia Mansfield to talk about creep Bill Gothard, a minister, writer, and the founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). The IBLP is a fundamentalist Christian organization that encourages the submission of wives to husbands, procreative sex, the corporal punishment of children, homeschooling, and biblical literalism. Those who’ve escaped it say it goes much further, enlisting coercion, mind control, isolation, sexual abuse, and financial manipulation against its adherents.

Sources for this episode:

RecoveringGrace.org
Quiverfull: Inside The Christian Patriarchy Movement, by Kathryn Joyce
A Well Trained Wife, by Tia Levings
Counting the Cost, by Jill Duggar Dillard
Becoming Free Indeed, by Jinger Duggar Vuolo
I Pray You Put This Journal Away, available on Spotify
The Sojo Files, available on Spotify
Leaving Eden, available on Spotify
Shiny Happy People, on Amazon Prime
IBLP.org
Chicago Magazine
New York Times
People magazine
Washington Post
USA Today
The Guardian
BuzzFeed
NBC News
https://inthesetimes.com/article/cult-of-character
The Sojo Files
Leaving Eden
Christianity Today
In Touch Weekly
Duggar Family website

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