Sovereign Grace Ministries and Abuse: Time to Speak Out

May 26, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by Kristen Rosser For some time I’ve been watching with a heavy heart the progress of the lawsuit initially filed against Sovereign Grace Ministries in October 2012.  The original news articles have long since been archived, but the evangelical watchdog blog site The Wartburg Watch 

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Josh Harris Reveals Childhood Abuse

May 26, 2013 By 2 Comments
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by Calulu You remember Josh Harris, author of “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” and pastor of Maryland mega church Covenant Life Church? He’s been in the news during the separation of Covenant Life Church and their denominational links to Sovereign Grace Ministries over the last year.

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ROC Pastor Geronimo Aguilar Being Investigated For Sexual Misconduct

May 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Remember the Jack Schaap friend who is a pastor and supported Schaap even when Schaap admitted guilt in having a sexual relationship with a minor? Looks like the years of whispered rumors have reaped an investigation into the allegations that he grooms girls and young women

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Demanding an Answer from HSLDA

May 9, 2013 By 2 Comments
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by Heather Doney (formerly known at NLQ as Becoming Worldly) Something really interesting happened last night. The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) indirectly responded to the blogger Libby Anne’s series on how HSLDA has helped facilitate child abuse in homeschooling. First off, let me just say that I was surprised

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Review: I Fired God: My Life Inside–and Escape from–the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult by Jocelyn Zichterman

May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Calulu When I first received this book I chuckled over the title, “I Fired God” because it seemed both humorous and sacrilegious at the same time. Firing God? How is it even possible? I quickly found out that the author should have fired her IFB God much sooner. Before reading “I Fired God” my [...]

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