Shiny Happy People is Shining a Light on Spiritual Trauma
Thoughts on watching the documentary and the similarities I found
Since I’ve written about leaving the church, I’ve been asked by many people if I’ve watched the documentary Shiny Happy People. It’s about the Dugger Family and their adherence to a doctrine created by a man named Bill Gothard at his Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP).
The IBLP teachings are based on the Bible and lean on the fundamentalist side.…