by Ron Henzel | May 13, 2021 | #metoo, Cancel Culture, Christian living, Culture and Society, Online Shaming, Social Media, Spiritual Abuse
No one with a modicum of cultural awareness could have missed the fact that in the past few years a rather intense media spotlight has been shined on all types of abuse—physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, etc. And nothing has served to more clearly train this...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 16, 2019 | Divided Families, Faithful and Discreet Slave, False Teacher, Friends, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon, Mormonism, Muslim, Spiritual Abuse
When someone leaves a cult or spiritually abusive religious group, it often means they will be abandoned by everyone who was their friend when they were inside the group. This practice is called shunning, and cult members take very seriously their spiritual “duty” to...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 25, 2016 | Bill Gothard / IBLP, Church leadership, False Teacher, Fear, Legalism, Sexual Abuse, Shepherding, Spiritual Abuse
Recovering Grace is a website which hosts discussions of the teachings of Bill Gothard and his Institute in Basic Life Principles. They do this in an effort to help those who have been hurt by Gothard’s legalistic and authoritarian teachings. On February 19, 2016,...
by Jonathan Miles | Feb 15, 2016 | Cults and Religions, Jehovah's Witnesses, MCOI Journal, Spiritual Abuse, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Winter 2001
(This originally appeared in the Winter 2001 edition of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 13) I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with...
by Don Veinot | Jun 13, 2015 | Bill Gothard / IBLP, Christ and the Church, March/April 1998, MCOI Journal, Spiritual Abuse
(This originally appeared in the March/April 1998 edition of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 6) On December 4, I997, three members of Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc. (Ron Henzel, Marty Butz, and Don Veinot) met with seminar minister Bill Gothard at his offices of...
by Don Veinot | Dec 4, 2014 | Authoritarian, Books, Christ and the Church, Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, Fear, Jehovah's Witnesses, Legalism, Mormonism, Politics, Racism, Shepherding, Spiritual Abuse, Word Faith
Intimidation comes at us on a variety of fronts and sometimes in subtle ways. It might come from the political arena or religious groups. Sometimes it is family or work associates. In some cases intimidation can be a good thing but is most it can be destructive and is...
