Ep 745 | Life as a Duggar & Letting Go of Legalism | Guest: Jinger Duggar Vuolo

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.6 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today we’re joined by Jinger Duggar Vuolo, author of "Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear," and formerly of the "19 Kids and Counting" franchise. In her new book, Jinger shares her theological journey from following a fundamentalist leader to finding freedom in Christ. We discuss her upbringing under the teachings of Bill Gothard, who taught strict rules on modesty and behavior, and how these teachings were rooted in fear, superstition, and control and led Jinger to believe she needed to earn favor with God. We discuss her childhood growing up on TV (despite never watching TV), struggling with an eating disorder, and wrestling with the idea of attending a church outside her doctrine growing up. We discuss how Jinger met her husband, Jeremy, and how his theology helped shape hers. Jinger explains the difference between “deconstruction” and “disentangling” faith and why disentangling can lead to true restoration under biblical truth. --- Timecodes: (01:09) Interview with Jinger begins / "Becoming Free Indeed" (02:00) Bill Gothard's teaching (08:58) Growing up on TV (14:50) Struggling with fear (19:30) Struggling with an eating disorder (22:00) Parental authority & gaining favor with God (27:30) Letting go of old theology (40:20) Deconstruction vs. disentanglement --- Today's Sponsors: A'Del — go to adelnaturalcosmetics.com and enter promo code "ALLIE" for 25% off your first order! EdenPURE — get 3 Thunderstorm Air Purifiers for under $200 at EdenPureDeals.com, use promo code 'ALLIE3'! Patriot Mobile — go to PatriotMobile.com/ALLIE or call 878-PATRIOT and use promo code 'ALLIE' to get free activation! --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 176 | Jeremy Vuolo https://apple.co/3Dbh8fC Ep 730 | When God Calls You to Tell Jokes | Guest: Joel Berry https://apple.co/3WFnw5L --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know Ginger Volo from Reality TV. She is a daughter of the Duggers, the TLC show,
0:08.3	19 Kids and Countene. And she is here today to talk about her new book, Becoming Free Indeed,
0:14.2	which is about disentangling herself, her faith from the principles that she grew up being taught,
0:24.3	whether it was extremely strict modesty or different forms of legalism that caused her to live her life
0:33.6	in constant fear as an adolescent. She is talking about how the Holy Spirit has sanctified her
0:39.3	and used different experiences, conversations, people in her life to show her what the true
0:44.8	and liberating gospel is. You are absolutely going to love this conversation, really interesting,
0:50.8	really encouraging. This episode is brought to you by your friends at GoodRangers. Go to GoodRangers.com.
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1:08.8	Ginger, thank you so much for joining us. I'm so excited to have you. We're going to talk about
1:14.7	your new book, Becoming Free Indeed. So just tell us before we get into all of it, just give us a
1:20.3	little summary. What is this book about? Why did you write it? Yeah, thanks for having me, Allie.
1:26.2	I'm so glad to be with you. Yeah, so Becoming Free Indeed is the story of my faith journey. I grew
1:34.5	grew up under some harmful teaching that threatened to leave me fearful and confused about who
1:41.0	Jesus is. And this is the story of how I've had to disentangle faith from fear.
1:48.8	Yeah. And the dedication says to those who have been hurt by the teachings of Bill Gawther,
1:54.9	I think that's how you pronounce his last name, or any religious leader who claimed to speak
1:59.4	for God, but didn't. I don't know who Bill Gawther is. I'm sure a lot of my audience dies,
2:04.3	but a lot probably don't. Can you just tell us what you mean by that?
2:08.8	Yeah, Bill Gawther came on the scene in the 1960s and 70s whenever
2:13.8	sex drugs and rock and roll were a big concern for parents. Yeah. And he came on the scene saying
2:23.3	that he had the answers to life's problems and he came on saying that if parents followed
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