Bill Gothard, founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles

What a Creep
Season 31, Episode 2
Bill Gothard, founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles

Kristen Meinzer from The Nighty on Hatch Plus and Health Matters from the Mayo Clinic joins Sonia Mansfield to talk about creep Bill Gothard, a minister, writer, and the founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). The IBLP is a fundamentalist Christian organization that encourages the submission of wives to husbands, procreative sex, the corporal punishment of children, homeschooling, and biblical literalism. Those who’ve escaped it say it goes much further, enlisting coercion, mind control, isolation, sexual abuse, and financial manipulation against its adherents.

Sources for this episode:

• RecoveringGrace.org
• Quiverfull: Inside The Christian Patriarchy Movement, by Kathryn Joyce
• A Well Trained Wife, by Tia Levings
• Counting the Cost, by Jill Duggar Dillard
• Becoming Free Indeed, by Jinger Duggar Vuolo
• I Pray You Put This Journal Away, available on Spotify
• The Sojo Files, available on Spotify
• Leaving Eden, available on Spotify
• Shiny Happy People, on Amazon Prime
• IBLP.org 
• Chicago Magazine 
• New York Times 
• People magazine 
• Washington Post 
• USA Today 
• The Guardian
• BuzzFeed 
• NBC News 
• https://inthesetimes.com/article/cult-of-character
• The Sojo Files 
• Leaving Eden 
• Christianity Today
• In Touch Weekly
• Duggar Family website

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