By now, many of you have seen the documentary on the Duggar family, “Shiny Happy People.” As a woman who grew up under spiritual abuse, I am glad to see any form of abuse unearthed and exposed.
Rules without relationship injure people, and the legalistic way in which Gothard and others like him control people using the Bible as their excuse to do so is wrong. However, I believe this was the wrong way to expose it.
This documentary was salivating at the chance to give Christians stones to throw at people — even those who did not deserve it—and that’s exactly what they got. Today I’ll be sharing my thoughts and directing us back to the gospel that changes us.
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Links to resources mentioned in podcast and other important links
- Amazon’s ‘Shiny Happy People’ Has Lessons to Teach, If We’re Willing to Listen
- What ‘Shiny Happy People’ reveals about the Duggar’s: ‘We were taken advantage of’
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