Histories
The History of Homeschooling: 1904-Present
A Brief History of ATI and HSLDA’s Relationship
A Brief History of Homeschool Speech and Debate
No Unbelievers Allowed: How Homeschooling Became a Christians-Only Club
HSLDA Gave This Man Their Prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award Just 4 Years Ago
The Skeleton in Doug Phillips’s Closet Is Now in the Creation Museum. Literally.
So… About That “Homeschooled Hero” George Washington
The Jamin C. Wight Story: The Other Child Molester in Doug Wilson’s Closet
When Michael Farris Threatened To Send The FBI After A Homeschool Kid
The Uncomfortable Origin of HSLDA’s “Parental Rights”
Why HSLDA Finds the Proverbial Village Threatening
The False Testimony of Will Estrada on HSLDA and Same-Sex Marriage
Investigative Reports
How Homeschoolers Plan to Take Over the World
The Christian Nationalism of Michael Farris
Do Hard-Right Things: How Alex and Brett Harris’s Rebelution Promotes Extremism
How Advocates of Corporal Punishment Threaten Parents
Homeschooling as a Totalistic Tool
End Child Protection: Doug Phillips, HSLDA, and the 2009 Men’s Leadership Summit
Why I Cannot Support Frontline Family Ministries’ Abuse Prevention Week
When Homeschool Leaders Looked Away: The Old Schoolhouse Cover-Up
Children as Divine Rental Property: An Exposition on HSLDA’s Philosophy of Parental Rights
The Child as Viper: How Voddie Baucham’s Theology of Children Promotes Abuse
When Homeschoolers Turn Violent
Andrew Pudewa and Musical Pseudoscience
When Your Very Identity is Held Hostage: Alecia Pennington and Identification Abuse
How Christian Homeschool Leaders Have Addressed Domestic Violence Isn’t Ok
Commentaries
Homeschoolers Anonymous, 10 Years Later
Tucker Carlson to Keynote at the Great Homeschool Conventions
Snake Oil Homeschooling: The False Promises of Fear and Control
This is What Child Abusers Look Like in Homeschooling Communities
How Overturning Roe v. Wade Endangers Homeschooling
Dear Homeschool Parents and Leaders, Jesus Doesn’t Need Your Reputation
How We Speak and Think About Children Matters
Homeschooled Kids Matter: A Response to Will Estrada
Blanket Training is About Adults, Not Children
Britney Spears and White Evangelicalism
The Nauseating Repetition of Homeschool Abuse Cases
Homeschool Researcher Brian D. Ray Promotes Books Linked to Child Abuse, Deaths
“Cynthia Is Not Wrong”: What Chris Jeub Originally Said
I Was Homeschooled My Entire Life and I Support HB 4498
Changing the Homeschool Narrative: Child Advocacy in Richmond
Why I am a Radical Activist for All Things Evil
The Stones You Cast, The Tables You Built
How I Learned To Stop Being Afraid and Love Other Religions: Part Two, When Buddhism Saved My Life
“The Golden Compass” And The Breaking Of Children’s Wills
A Personal Response to Voddie Baucham on Mental Illness
The Most Controversial Thing I Ever Wrote, Part One
The Most Controversial Thing I Ever Wrote, Part Two
I Was The Original CFC Fuck-Up
Homeschool Confidential: Leaving Generation Joshua
Josh Duggar and Josh Komisarjevsky: A Tale of Two Joshes
Resources
A Survival Guide for Homeschool Alumni
Four Solutions to Abuse in Homeschooling Communities
Cultural Competence in Evangelical and Fundamentalist Homeschooling Communities
Curriculum: Child Abuse Awareness 101 for Homeschoolers
Curriculum: Suicide Prevention 101 for Homeschoolers
7 Ways to Support Your LGBTQ Homeschooled Kid No Matter Your Beliefs
40 Ways to Help Homeschool Kids in Bad Situations, Part One
40 Ways to Help Homeschool Kids in Bad Situations, Part Two
Child Abuse Resources for Homeschoolers
Mental Health Resources for Homeschoolers
Resources for Homeschool Alumni
Starting a Child Protection Bookclub
Protecting Your Homeschool Organization from Child Abuse
Seven Positive Parenting Alternatives to Corporal Punishment
Five Ways to Empower Your Homeschooled Child to Cope with Trauma
Why Homeschoolers Need to Understand Trauma Symptoms
Why Homeschoolers Should Embrace the Proverbial Village
What About Socialization — For Parents?
Speeches
Facing Our Fears: How the Voices of Homeschool Alumni Can Help Homeschooling
The Bible, Like Homeschooling, Can Radicalize or Liberate
Traumatic Homeschooling: How Evangelicals Use Education to Totalize
Podcasts
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, State of Belief, “Who May Rue Rescinding Roe“
3 New Podcast Episodes on Evangelical Homeschooling
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, State of Belief, “How Homeschoolers Plan to Take Over the World”
Dr. Bradley Onishi, Straight White American Jesus, “Radicalized at Home”
Dr. Clint Heacock, MindShift, “Taking Dominion: Inside the Christian Homeschooling Bubble”
Dr. Bradley Onishi, Straight White American Jesus, “Free Britney (From The Evangelicals)!”
Dr. Bradley Onishi, Straight White American Jesus, “The Stay at Home Daughter Movement and the SBC”
Book Reviews and Interviews
Building God’s Kingdom: A Book Review
A Conversation with Morgan Guyton on “How Jesus Saves the World From Us”
This Present Darkness: A Review of M Dolon Hickmon’s “13:24”
An Interview with “13:24” Author M Dolon Hickmon
The 10 Best (AKA, Worst) Quotations from Mary Pride’s “The Child Abuse Industry” (With Gifs)
What J. Richard Fugate Says About… Tolerating Child Abuse
Sexual Coercion as Redemptive: Nancy Wilson on a Wife’s Sexual Duties
How Voddie Baucham’s Teachings Cause Long-Term Damage: Collected Interviews
“My Parents Abused Me”: An Interview with Hallie Ray Ziebert
Studies:
On the Coalition for Responsible Home Education: The 2014 HARO Survey of Homeschool Alumni
On Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out: The 2015 Survey of Identification Abuse Within Homeschooling
Featured elsewhere:
On QueerPHC: Straight Talk About QueerPHC
On Spiritual Sounding Board: We Need Safe Places, Or, Overturning Tables
On Secular Woman: Like Voldemort To Wizards: How Christian Homeschooling Made Me A Sex Ed Advocate
On Cindy Wang Brandt: Jesus Isn’t a Pill and My Pills Aren’t Saviors
On A Study of the Soul: soul tattoos & spider webs
On Patheos: Putting Children First: Rejecting a One-Size-Fits-All Mentality
On the Coalition for Responsible Home Education: “Not everyone had parents like I did”
On the Coalition for Responsible Home Education: Checks and Balances: The Conservative Case for Homeschool Oversight
On the Child-Friendly Faith Project: Why the Waffle House Shooter’s Homeschooling Background Matters
On Fathom Magazine: This Lying Survivor: Frank E. Peretti and Evangelical Fears About False Abuse Allegations
On Religion Dispatches: Why #FreeBritney Is An #Exvangelical Cause
On Religion Dispatches: What the Latest “God’s Not Dead” Gets Egregiously Wrong—And Right—About Homeschooling
On Religion Dispatches: Unintended Consequences: Overturning Roe v. Wade May Endanger This Cherished Evangelical Practice
On the Vashti Initiative: You Are Not Your Own: And Other Lies Evangelicalism Taught Me
On Religion Dispatches: At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling “Star” Who Embraces The Right Wing Theology At the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?
On Religion Dispatches: Lila Rose and the Right Resurrect Malicious Child Predator Myth Putting LGBTQ People in Even Greater Danger
On Religion Dispatches: Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right