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The episode discusses Bill Gothard and the controversial practices 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…

People in this episode

Host: Sonia Mansfield

Guest: Kristen Meinzer

Topics covered

• Bill Gothard
• Institute in Basic Life Principles
• Christian fundamentalism
• coercion and mind control
• sexual abuse
• financial manipulation

Keywords

• Bill Gothard
• IBLP
• Christian patriarchy
• mind control
• sexual abuse
• fundamentalism
• homeschooling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Institute in Basic Life Principles, RecoveringGrace.org, IBLP.org, Chicago Magazine, New York Times, People magazine, Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, BuzzFeed

Books & works: Quiverfull: Inside The Christian Patriarchy Movement, A Well Trained Wife, Counting the Cost, Becoming Free Indeed, I Pray You Put This Journal Away, The Sojo Files, Leaving Eden, Shiny Happy People

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