by Don Veinot | May 9, 2013 | Authoritarian, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Christ and the Church, Christian living, Church, Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, Discernment, Legalism, Politics, Spiritual Abuse, Vision Forum/Patriarchy
Leaders speak with an authority accorded to them by their position. When Barack Obama gave the Ohio State University Commencement Address, he did so as President of the United States. With the authority of that office behind him, it will be few students that would...
by Ron Henzel | Apr 11, 2013 | Apologetics, Christ and the Church, Church, Cults and Religions, Jesus People USA, Sexual Abuse, Spiritual Abuse
The Jesus People USA (JPUSA) of Chicago is a Christian commune (or as they now prefer to say, “intentional community”) that was founded in 1972. For two decades it enjoyed a kind of “fair-haired child” status among evangelicals as a combination...
by Don Veinot | Oct 18, 2012 | Apologetics, Authoritarian, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Christ and the Church, Christian living, Culture and Society, Discernment, Legalism, Spiritual Abuse
Some groups which could be classified as cults or abusive religious groups by Evangelicals strongly discourage thinking independently from the groups leadership. Jehovah’s Witnesses Watchtower Bible and Tract Society went so far in the 1980s as to run articles which...
by Karen Campbell | Oct 23, 2011 | Christ and the Church, Fall 2011, MCOI Journal, Patriocentric, Spiritual Abuse
(Originally printed in the Fall 2011 Issue of the MCOI Journal) A couple years ago, I happened across an interesting blog article written by an older woman, I will call Anne, who lives in the Midwest. With refreshing honesty and engaging style, she wrote in poetic...
by Don Veinot and Ron Henzel | Nov 23, 1997 | Bill Gothard / IBLP, Christ and the Church, Fear, MCOI Journal, November/December 1997, Spiritual Abuse
(This originally appeared in the November/December 1997 MCOI Journal) In part one of this series, we traced the history of the rise of Bill Gothard ‘s Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts (IBYC), the fact it grew during a very tumultuous time in American history...
by Don Veinot, Ron Henzel | Sep 23, 1997 | Bill Gothard / IBLP, Christ and the Church, MCOI Journal, September/October 1997, Spiritual Abuse
By L.L. Don Veinot, Jr. and Ron Henzel (This originally appeared in the September/October 1997 MCOI Journal) In 1991 1This was 4 years prior to our legal incorporation on April1, 1995, Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc. began receiving phone calls from some residents in...
