Books and journal articles that cite my work:
• Kelsey Kramer McGinnis, “To Be Seen and Heard: Toward a Child Liberation Theology Framework for Contemporary Praise and Worship Practice,” Religions, February 2025: link
• Talia Lavin, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, Grand Central Publishing, 2024: Multiple references to my homeschool advocacy in Chapter 12, “One Big Happy Family.”
• Abram Kielsmeier-Jones, “A Burning Child in the Midst: The Promise and Power of R.L. Stollar’s Child Liberation Theology,” Currents in Theology and Mission, June 2024: link.
• Graham Adams, Lived Mission in 21st Century Britain: Ecumenical and Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by Benjamin Aldous, SCM Press, 2024: References to my child liberation theology work in Adams’ chapter, Chapter Two, “Mission in the Colonial Matrix of Adult Power: Child-centredness as Way, Truth, and Life!”
• Graham Adams, God The Child: Small, Weak, and Curious Subversions, SCM Press, 2024: Multiple references throughout the text to my child liberation theology work.
• Aizaiah G. Yong, review of my book The Kingdom of Children, Religious Studies Review, April 2024: link
• Marcia J. Bunge, Faith in Law, Law in Faith: Reflecting and Building on the Work of John Witte, Jr., edited by Timothy P Jackson, Gary S. Hauk, and Rafael Domingo, Brill Publishers, 2024: Reference to my book The Kingdom of Children in Bunge’s chapter, Chapter Twenty-Eight, “Christianity, Child Well-Being, and Corporal Punishment.”
• Craig L. Nessan, “Grounding Child Protection in Six Core Commitments: Theology and Ethics,” Journal of Lutheran Ethics, December 2023/January 2024: link
• Nadra Nittle, bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist, Fortress Press, 2023: References to myself and child liberation theology in Chapter Two, “The Girl With Too Much Spirit.”
• Sarah Stankorb, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning, Worthy Books, 2023: References to my advocacy on behalf of homeschooled children and alumni in Chapter Twelve, “Homeschoolers Anonymous.”
• Shantelle Weber, God’s Heart for Children: Practical Theology from Global Perspectives, edited by Rosalind Tan, Nativity A. Petallar, and Lucy A. Hefford, Langham Global Library, 2022: Reference to myself and my child liberation theology work in Weber’s chapter, “Beyond Welcoming to Engaging Children for God’s Kingdom.”
• Craig L. Nessan, Child Theology: Diverse Methods and Global Perspectives, edited by Marcia J. Bunge, Orbis Books, 2021: Multiple references to my child liberation theology writings in Chapter One, “Attending to the Cries of Children in Liberation Theologies.”
• Rohan Nelson, “Suffer the Children: A Review Article,” Currents in Theology and Mission, January 2021: Multiple references to my child liberation theology writings, link.
• Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, Liveright Publishing, 2020: Reference on p. 341 to an article I wrote for Homeschoolers Anonymous, “The Jamin C. Wight Story: The Other Child Molester in Doug Wilson’s Closet,” link.
• Selina Palm, Childhood Vulnerabilities in South Africa: Some Ethical Perspectives, edited by Jan Grobbelaar and Chris Jones, Sun Press, 2020: Multiple references to my child liberation theology writings in Chapter Two, “Seen But Not Heard? Engaging the Mechanisms of Faith to End Violence Against Children.”
• Cindy Wang Brandt, Parenting Forward: How to Raise Children with Justice, Mercy, and Kindness, Eerdmans, 2019: Reference on p. 110-111 to an article I wrote for the Unfundamentalist Parenting blog, “Children, Disobey Your Parents in the Lord, For This is Right,” link.
• Ron Belsterling, A Defense of Youth Ministry: Attachment Relationship Ministry, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2019: Reference to an article I wrote for Homeschoolers Anonymous, “6 Things You Should Know About Voddie Baucham,” link.
• Tad DeLay, Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want?, Cascade Books, 2019: Multiple references to my advocacy work on behalf of homeschooled children and alumni in Chapter Two, “Against Knowledge: Racist Origins of Alternative Education.”
• Elizabeth Bartholet, “Homeschooling: Parent Rights Absolutism vs. Child Rights to Education and Protection,” Arizona Law Review, 2019, link: Reference on p. 19 to an article I wrote for Homeschoolers Anonymous, “The 10 Best (AKA, Worst) Quotations from Mary Pride’s ‘The Child Abuse Industry’ (With Gifs),” link.
• James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters, Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice, University of Chicago Press, 2019: Reference on p. 119 to an article I wrote for Homeschoolers Anonymous, “When Homeschool Leaders Looked Away: The Old Schoolhouse Cover-Up,” link.
• Jon M. Sweeney, Phyllis Tickle: A Life, Church Publishing, 2018: Reference on pages 222-223 to my advocacy on behalf of domestic violence survivor Julie McMahon, ex-spouse of progressive Christian figure Tony Jones.
• Emily Hunter McGowin, Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical Theology of the Family, Fortress Press, 2018: Reference on p. 156 to an article I wrote for Homeschoolers Anonymous, “Children as Divine Rental Property: An Exposition on HSLDA’s Philosophy of Parental Rights,” link.
• Craig L. Nessan, “Child Liberation Theology,” Currents in Theology and Mission, July 2018: Multiple references to my child liberation theology writings, link.
• Milton Gaither, Homeschool: An American History, Springer, 2017: Multiple references to my advocacy and writings on behalf of homeschooled children on p. 200, 262, 289, and 290.
• Julie Ingersoll, Building God’s Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2015: References on p. 260-261 to an article I wrote for Homeschoolers Anonymous, “End Child Protection: Doug Phillips, HSLDA, and the 2009 Men’s Leadership Summit,” link.
Media and other coverage that cites my work:
• Bob Smietana and Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service, “The new leaders in the world of faith to follow in 2025,” December 31, 2024, link
• U.S. Catholic interview, “Christianity should empower and liberate children,” August 27, 2024, link
• Kathryn Post, Religion News Service, “Adults raised in the ‘Christian parenting empire’ of the ’70s-’90s push back,” May 30, 2024, link
• Rick Pidcock, Baptist News Global, “What can we learn from children about being liberated from Kendomland?,” April 30, 2024, link
• Abram Kielsmeier-Jones, The Christian Century, “Where are the children in liberation theologies?,” April 29, 2024, link
• Rick Pidcock, Baptist News Global, “If Good News Clubs get access to public schools, so does After School Satan Club,” November 21, 2023, link
• Kathryn Post, Religion News Service, “Child liberation theology says God is a child, too,” November 20, 2023, link
• Emma Brown and Peter Jamison, Washington Post, “The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry,” August 29, 2023, link
• CFCtoo, “The Danger of Inadequate Child Protection Policies,” July 13, 2023, link
• Jennifer Cohn, Bucks County Beacon, “Christian Homeschooling Crusader Michael Farris Opposes Women’s Reproductive Rights, LGBTQ+ Rights, And Children’s Rights,” June 8, 2023, link
• Amanda Ghibaudo, Digital USD, “Vulnerability of Juveniles to False Confessions,” May 6, 2023, link
• Sarah Stankorb, Substack, “A Liberation Theology, for Children,” February 17, 2023, link
• Sasha Kuczynski, ProQuest, “Dirty Tricks, Clean Image: The Rhetoric of Washing Strategies,” December 2022, link
• Rick Pidcock, Baptist News Global, “Schools and spanking: Isn’t it time we stopped using religion to justify violence?,” September 2, 2022, link
• Diana Cariboni, Open Democracy, “Top US homeschooling advocates say parents have ‘right’ to inflict pain,” July 18, 2022, link
• Diana Cariboni, Mariama Correia, Clarissa Levy, and Alice De Souza, Open Democracy, “Spank your children, Brazil’s homeschooling industry tells parents,” July 18, 2022, link
• Rick Pidcock, Baptist News Global, “There’s a straight line from eugenics to ‘biblical family values’ to white supremacy and the anti-abortion movement,” July 5, 2022, link
• Rick Pidcock, Baptist News Global, “What I learned listening to others who have left the faith,” May 25, 2022, link
• Chrissy Stroop, Religion Dispatches, “Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of This $100 Million PR-Blitz-For-Jesus It’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy,” March 21, 2022, link
• The Dissenter, “A New Heresy Invading the Church: Child Liberation Theology,” March 10, 2022, link
• Rick Pidcock, Baptist News Global, “Plagiarism is the least thing to worry about with Voddie Baucham, who is a threat to children, women and daughters,” March 7, 2022, link
• Jessica Johnson, The Revealer, “The Crusade Against Critical Race Theory in Hanover County, Virginia,” December 9, 2021, link
• Alice Kelly, YourTango, “The Duggars’ Homeschooling Program Contains Lessons That Promote Child Abuse & Forgiving Molesters,” December 9, 2021, link
• Clint Heacock, Political Research Associates, “Exodus or Transformation: Christian Homeschooling and R.J. Rushdoony’s Legacy in the Age of COVID,” October 26, 2021, link
• Beth Stoneburner, Patheos, “Christian Homeschoolers Won’t Acknowledge Their Complicity in Duggar-Like Abuse,” July 14, 2021, link
• Elliott Almond, San Jose Mercury News, “Pride-month protest of anti-gay speaker at Calvary Chapel San Jose leads to curbside debates,” June 6, 2021, link
• Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, “San Jose church that defied coronavirus orders draws protest by hosting anti-gay leader,” June 6, 2021, link
• Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Flux, “Far-right evangelicals excused sexual abuse long before Donald Trump,” June 5, 2021, link
• Chrissy Stroop, Religion Dispatches, “What’s Wrong With Taming the Tongue? ‘Gossip’ and the Limits of Evangelical Abuse Prevention Efforts,” April 26, 2021, link
• Audrey Clare Farley, Ms. Magazine, “How Christian Schools and Homeschooling Teach Supremacist Conspiracies,” March 2, 2021, link
• Chrissy Stroop, Religion Dispatches, “Where Were They Radicalized? No Answer is Complete Without Addressing Evangelical Churches and Schooling,” January 19, 2021, link
• Samuel D. James, First Things, “Homeschoolers and Ideologues,” May 26, 2020, link
• Sloan Okrey Anderson and Benjamin J. Lough, Journal of LGBT Youth, “Sexual and Gender Minoritized Youth in Christian Home Schools: Perceptions of Climate and Support,” December 2019, link
• Chrissy Stroop, Rewire News Group, “Evangelical Radicalism Is Cartoonish, But It Isn’t Just a Sideshow,” October 8, 2019, link
• Chrissy Stroop, Playboy, “Is Homeschooling Breeding a New Kind of Domestic Terrorist?,” May 8, 2019, link
• Lisa Grace Lednicer, Washington Post, “These activists want greater home-school monitoring. Parent groups say no way,” March 2, 2017, link
• Katherine Stewart, The Nation, “As the Religious Right Forces the Gospel Into Public Schools, Some Parents Are Opting to Homeschool,” May 3, 2016, link
• Catherine Wagley, JSTOR Daily, “The Duggars: Sexual Abuse in the Christian Homeschooling Movement,” January 13, 2016, link
• Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, “Small Group Goes to Great Lengths to Block Homeschooling Regulation,” August 27, 2015, link
• Andrea DenHoed, The New Yorker, “Josh Duggar’s Ashley Madison Problem,” August 21, 2015, link
• Patrick Michels, Texas Observer, “A House Divided: New Leaders Fight for the Future of Texas Home Schooling,” April 20, 2015, link
• Carmen Green, Georgetown Law Journal, “Educational Empowerment: A Child’s Right to Attend Public School,” April 15, 2015, link
• Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, “How a teenager’s viral campaign to prove her citizenship is inspiring a new Texas bill,” March 12, 2015, link
• Caitlin G. Townsend, Religion & Politics, “The Troubling Push to Deregulate Homeschooling,” February 17, 2015, link
• Matthew Paul Turner, The Daily Beast, “Homeschool Teen Can’t Prove She’s an American,” February 14, 2015, link
• Samantha Laine, Christian Science Monitor, “Alecia Pennington can’t prove she’s an American – or even exists. What would you do?,” February 12, 2015, link
• Daniel James Devine, WORLD Magazine, “Homeschool debate,” August 22, 2014, link
• Alisa Harris, The Daily Beast: “‘Survivor’ Bloggers Join Forces to Reveal Christian Fundamentalist Abuses,” March 23, 2014, link
• Kathryn Joyce, The American Prospect, “The Homeschool Apostates,” February 10, 2014, link
• Konrad Ege, Evangelical Press, “Fromm und isoliert: ‘Home Schooling’ in den USA,” January 11, 2014, link
• Katherine Stewart, The Guardian, “The dark side of home schooling: creating soldiers for the culture war,” May 8, 2013, link
• Michelle Goldberg, The Daily Beast, “Homeschooled Kids, Now Grown, Blog Against the Past,” April 11, 2013, link