Creative commons courtesy of Pixabay, Patrizia08. By Ryan Stollar “You best learn to live while you’re alive.” — Cloud Cult Healing from any trauma, but especially religious traum…

Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, “Every enforcement tool from the federal DOJ and DOE to the local school board should be protecting a child’s right to be…

Oh come on, you’ve thought the same thing.

While deeply indebted to the Child Theology Movement, child liberation theology breaks from it in a number of important ways.

Bill Gothard claims that a victim of sexual assault who does not cry out—who remains silent for whatever reason—is equally guilty with her attacker.

Unless you are willing to look at the root of violence in your own families or respect the human rights of other families’ children, I cannot take your concerns about violence seriously.

What would the church look like if we treated children as agents in their own lives, and allowed them to do their own theology?

A history of the modern U.S. homeschooling movement from 1904 through the present.

World Magazine was intimately involved with promoting Christofascism throughout Marvin Olasky’s leadership.

This is the first article in a multi-part series I am writing in 2022 providing an overview of child liberation theology.

There will never be headlines for broken marriages and broken hearts, for eating disorders and suicidal depression.

Bill Gothard, the disgraced IBLP founder who taught millions of evangelicals, has reportedly suffered a heart attack and is in a coma

(RNS) — Leveraging social media, these parents and professionals aim to show that this parenting approach can result in trauma, estrangement and views of God as abusive.

“Can we please just stop with the comments about how not all homeschoolers are ‘like that’? We get it.”

This idea of child advocacy is not new, it is not partisan, it is not ideological, and it is not crazy.

The warm camaraderie and partnerships between ATI and HSLDA extend beyond the direct relationships between ATI’s Wisdom Booklet developers (Gothard, Cannon, and Guthrie) and HSLDA.

The Bible is not a children’s book. If a child must learn about genocide, it should be in an age-appropriate and protective manner.

Forgiveness is supposed to be a meaningful, human practice. In Bill Gothard’s world, it became a rule. A requirement. A tool used to keep people compliant and quiet. For those of us shaped by IBLP and...

These versions are NOT intended for educational use, but for journalists and researchers who want to investigate the teachings of ATI in primary sources.

To learn more about how children bring liberation from the Kens of Kendomland, I interviewed child liberationist theologian R.L. Stollar about his new book, The Kingdom of Children: A Liberation Theol...

It cannot be anymore plain, that committing abuse of any kind against a child is an offense that angers the God of the Bible.

A culture that upholds and centers children’s emotions will be more just for all people.

Gothard, MacArthur, and the many other rightwing advocates of patriarchal, nuclear families are dead wrong. Fathers, parents, and nuclear families are not magical umbrellas of protection.

ATI and the Duggars’ philosophy can lead to serial sexual abuse because men are relieved of much of their responsibility for their actions.

Bill Gothard, the embattled founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles IBLP , reportedly suffered a heart attack and is in a coma, according to posts shared by members of a private Facebook

“With Bill Gothard’s ceaseless emphasis on authority, obedience, and chain-of-command, it should be no surprise that he is compulsively attracted to men (and more rarely, women) whom he…

The underlying principles and beliefs the Duggars have built their lives around actually help groom and shame victims, help hide grievous abuse, and even keep offenders from receiving needed help.

Child liberation theology is not about abstract ideas but rather the simple yet radical act of treating children humanly and justly—something Fred Rogers took seriously.

I want to throw into stark relief the extreme predatory nature of Gothard’s actions.

And the 2010 “Gregg Harris” Lifetime Achievement Award goes to…

It is never the job of a child to protect themselves from abuse. This job belongs to the adults in their life.

Homeschoolers have a complicated relationship with math.