2012 ICSA Meeting Links and Additional Info

The Popularity of Evangelical Christian Patriarchy in the US:

The Vilification and Abuse of Women and Children

(Presentation at the 2012 International Cultic Studies Association Conference in Montreal)

~ A list of links to accompany the presentation ~

 

Click here to view the powerpont presentation at Sliceshare.com

ICSA 2012 Annual Meeting Presentation on Evangelical Christian Patriarchy from Cynthia Kunsman

COMPLEMENTARIANISM

Websites:

• Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) & The Danvers Statement
  • Defense of the Danvers Statement (They need a 576 page tome ???)
• Egalitarianism: Christians for Biblical Equality International
  • Free articles listed under 'Resources'

Religious News Sources:

• EthicsDaily (ethicsdaily.com)
  • Southern Baptist Leaders' Comments Echo 'Biblical Patriarchy' Theology
  • Professor's Views on Spouse Abuse Don't Square with SBC Statements
• Associated Baptist Press (abpnews.com)
  • Christians Demand Apology for Anti-Woman Teaching

Audio/Video:

• Clips from the Freedom for Christian Women Coalition Video Channel on YouTube presented to a Christian audience (youtube.com/user/FreeCWC):
  • Very Brief Overview of Complementarianism: Demi-gods and Spiritual Mediators: No Wife Cometh Unto the Father But By Her Husband First
  • Why Discussing the Danvers Statement is Relevant
  • Lifton's Thought Reform: What it Looks Like in Complementarianism and Churches. Link to Part I HERE. Link to Part II HERE.
  • Entire presentations hosted on the FreeCWC Vimeo Channel (vimeo.com/channels/freecwc)
• John Piper's advice regarding domestic violence on YouTube: What Should A Wife's Submission To Her Husband Look Like If He's An Abuser?

• Paige Patterson: (President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) Advice to Victims of Domestic Abuse at the Internet Archive
• Podcast: Feminism in Your Church and Home with Russell Moore, Randy Stinson, and C.J. Mahaney

Selected Books:

• Women in Ministry: Four Views (Clouse & Clouse, editors)
• Pro Complementartianism:
  • Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism (Piper & Grudem, editors)
  • Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism? (Grudem)
  • The Feminist Mistake: The Radical Impact of Feminism on Church and Culture (Kassian)
  • Created to be His Helpmeet: Discover How God Can Make Your Marriage Glorious (Pearl)

• Contra Complementarianism:
  • Concerning the genesis of complementarinism, its primary errors, and its spread through the seminary system – Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity (Giles)
  • Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy (Pierce, Groothius & Fee)
  • Why Not Women (Cunningham & Hamilton)
  • Woman This Is War: Gender, Slavery & the Evangelical Caste System (**contact me for a free, downloadable copy) and Woman Submit: Christians and Domestic Violence (Andersen)

Online Writings:

• Critiques
  • Critiquing the Danvers Statement on UnderMuchGrace.com
  • Dr. Robert McGreggor Wright's impressive critique from the Pricilla Papers at CBEInterntional.org
  • Shirley Taylor's Response
• Freedom for Christian Women Coalition's Demand for an Apology from CBMW

INDEPENDENT FUNDAMENTAL BAPTIST BOOT CAMPS

• Link HERE to a more comprehensive list of specific links on UnderMuchGrace.com
• ABC's 20/20 Episode, “Shattered Faith,” Apr 2011
• Kathryn Joyce's August 2011 article in Mother Jones available online, now entitled Horror Stories from Tough Love Teen Homes
• Jeri Massi's podcast documentary series about The Lambs of Hephzbiah House (including interviews with survivors)
• Hidden Abuse in the Baptist Church Blog Talk Radio episodes concerning the IFB, their treatment of women, and an interview with Susan Grotte, a survivor of Hephzibah House
• CNN's Ungodly Discipline Series
  • Fairhaven Report
  • Hephzibah House
• Survivor Websites (See the bottom of this webpage for a more comprehensive list)
  •  (Susan Grotte's blogspot; This site includes copies of documents distributed to families by Ron Williams.)
  • Former Hephzibah Girls (Visit their links page for more links on activism.)
  • HephzibahHouse.com
  • Voices of the Past
• Cindy Foster's summary blog post
• HEAL Online (survivor and activism organization focused on the problem)
• IFB Sermons (Ron Williams)
  • The Correction and Salvation of Children
  • How to Raise a Strange Woman
• Tina Anderson's rape and the conviction of Ernest Willis, featured in the 20/20 Episode
  • Summary blog posts and links at UnderMuchGrace.com
• The Do Right BJU Protest on Facebook: Following the airing of the ABC 20/20 Episode concerning the problem of covering up sexual abuse within the IFB, Bob Jones University appointed the pastor who covered up the rape featured in the episode to their Cooperating Board. In protest, students and alumni joined in a protest by wearing red to chapel in December 2011. (See BJU's Tankmen of Tianamen Square at UnderMuchGrace.com) The student who organized the protest was expelled a few days before graduating. (Read Kicked Out of College for Watching Glee.)

HOMESCHOOLING'S BIBLICAL PATRIARCHY

• No Longer Quivering: Vyckie Garrison's website features personal accounts and helpful information

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  Kathryn Joyce's 2010 book, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement

• Hillary McFarland's 2010 book, Quivering Daughters: Hope and Healing for the Daughters of Patriarchy

• Gina McGalliard's Houseproud: the Troubling Rise of Stay At Home Daughters (journal article)
  
  
• Fiction about the problem:  When Sparrows Fall by Meg Moseley

• 60 minute video of a Christian counter-cult presentation giving a detailed overview of the movement: Cindy Kunsman's presentation entitled The Development and Practice of Patriarchy at EMNR, March 2008

• First Time Obedience teachings of Voddie Baucham (Single Trial Discipline) discussed on UnderMuchGrace.com
  
  
• Overcoming Botkin Syndrome: A blog describing the enmeshment resulting from the teachings of the Botkin Family who are connected to Great Commission Ministries/Jim McCotter
  
  
• Vision Forum
  • VisionForum.com & VisionForumMinistries.org (One of the most organized groups that promote a most aggressive form of patriarchy within the evangelical Christian homeschooling movement.)
  • VisionaryDaughters.com (Site hoted by the daughter's of Geoffrey Botkin who was a long-time follower of Jim McCotter)
  • Geoffrey Botkin's website
  • List of critiques, on and offsite links, and information concerning Vision Forum at UnderMuchGrace.com
  • Rethinking Vision Forum website
  • Bill Gothard and Michael Pearl get together to disavow themselves of Doug Phillips, Geoff Botkin, and Vision Forum. Link to Part1 HERE and Part II HERE.
• Bill Gothard
  • BillGothard.com (Shepherding/Discipleship teacher from the sixties who launched a homeschooling specific movement in the early eighties)
  • List of critiques, on and offsite links, and information concerning Bill Gothard's system at UnderMuchGrace.com
  • Recovering Grace website

MICHAEL PEARL'S CHILD TRAINING METHOD

• Index to many of Pearl's TV appearances and additional key information in the media concerning Lydia Schatz at UnderMuchGrace.com
  • 
    Several posts featuring clips and transcripts from CNN's Ungodly Discipline series and Anderson Cooper's daytime TV show
  • Series on UnderMuchGrace.com concerning the implications of social psychology and how the Pearl mindset promotes abuse
  • Series of posts concerning child abuse related renal failure (rhabdomyolosis)
• Janet Heimlich's 2011 book, Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment
  • Janet's website
• TulipGirl.com
• WhyNotTrainAChild.com
• Scita > Scienta's free, downloadable book, Parenting in the Name of God: No Greater Joy Ministries and the Bible

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Chuck Phelps Resigns from Bob Jones University

What a busy day of blogging!  Breaking news -

Dr. Chuck Phelps resigns from BJU Cooperating Board

At a regularly scheduled meeting of the Bob Jones University Board of Trustees, Dec. 2, 2011, Board Chairman, Dr. Bob Jones III, read a letter from Dr. Chuck Phelps in which Dr. Phelps voluntarily tendered his resignation from the Cooperating Board effective immediately. In submitting his resignation, Dr. Phelps expressed that he did not want anything to distract BJU from its mission.

“We are grateful to Dr. Phelps for his many years of loyal service to his alma mater as a member of the Board of Trustees,” says Dr. Jones III.

This may be the most honorable thing that the man has done thus far.

For several days, I've been considering what example from Scripture might best apply to the relationship and circumstances between Phelps and Tina Anderson.  I can only think of two.

First, I thought of how Phelps contends that he acted in the best interest of the church and concealed information from the congregation concerning Ernest Willis because it might put the church at legal risk from several perspectives.  In the sense of things secular and from a purely legal perspective, it was probably wise to note that it was a possibility.  But how does that compare to Scripture?

I can think of only one example.

Matthew 18: 10-14 (NIV)

The Parable of the Wandering Sheep

 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. 

  “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

And is there another example that parallels Phelps relationship with Tina and his behavior with her? I can think of only one other example, that of the woman caught in adultery.

John 8:7

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Phelps is all to ready with the stones, carrying out the law.

Sad.  If you had been raped or what if you weren't, and you went to this man for help...  Would you willingly go to him, knowing what you know about how he behaved with Tina and at least one other young woman?  (Read the open letter to Phelps from the other young woman's uncle.)

Would you want to be the lost one or one of the ninety nine under this pastor's care?  God forbid you should be found sinning or abandoned and abused.  Stones weigh more than grace does with some folks.

God have mercy on us all.

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Photo of Tina Anderson and Jocelyn Zichterman from the IFB Cult Survivors Facebook Page

Tina Anderson, left, and Jocelyn Zichterman, center, talk with supporters after a Merrimack Superior Court jury found Ernest Willis guilty of forcibly raping and impregnating his children's 15-year-old baby sitter, who belonged to the same church, more than a decade ago. (AP Photo/Alexander Cohn, Pool) AP

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Ernest Willis Found Guilty of Aggravated Sexual Assault of Tina Anderson

WMUR TV News 9 in New Hampshire announced via live blogging from the courtroom today that Ernest Willis was found guilty on two counts of forcible rape and one count of felonious sexual assault of then 15 year old Tina Anderson in 1997. Willis was in his late thirties and was married with four children when the abuse occurred. 

When Anderson became pregnant by Willis as a consequence of the rapes, Pastor Chuck Phelps of Trinity Baptist Church, an Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) affiliated church in Concord, NH, arranged for her to be sent to Colorado to carry the baby to term after being forced to repent to her congregation for “putting herself in a compromising situation.” While she was kept in social isolation and homeschooled by an albeit kind family until some time after her baby was delivered and adopted, Willis continued to have unchecked access to everyone among church congregants who were kept ignorant that Willis had committed statutory rape. Read more HERE.

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An Update on the trial of Ernest Willis (regarding the charges of sexual assault of Tina Anderson)

 At the time of this posting, Ernest Willis awaits day four of his trial for aggravated sexual assault of Tina Anderson, though he has plead guilty on one count of statutory rape which he claims was consensual. A local TV station in New Hampshire, WMUR's News 9, continues their close coverage of the events in the Merrimack County Superior Court of Concord, NH.

Judge Larry Smuckler will decide today whether the prosecution will be permitted to continue to pursue aggravated assault charges. It appears, at the time of this post, that the trial regarding aggravated assault will continue. Link HERE to follow WMUR's live blogging today.

The start of the trial was delayed today (26May11) while the judge decided whether Anderson's testimony regarding Willis' offer to take Anderson out-of-state for an abortion and to punch her to induce a miscarriage has been admitted and will be presented to the jury, overriding the previous decision to exclude this testimony.

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Willis plead guilty to statutory rape charges on May 17th but will still stand trial for other charges including aggravated sexual assault on Monday, May 23rd.  The plea will stand, even if there is a mistrial.

The Judge has ruled that Tina will not be permitted to state that Willis offered to pay for an abortion or to punch her in the stomach to induce a miscarriage,  nor will Tina be permitted to use the word "cult" during her testimony.   She may use the word "survivor" while testifying, however.

The Judge will rule by the end of the week on whether the 31 minute taped interview of Willis by the police will be admitted in court because of the repetition by the interrogating police officers that they believe Tina Anderson's testimony and that they disbelieve Wills.

Read more in Willis Pleads to Statutory Rape.

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