The most well-known producer and distributor of home-school material has closed its doors. Here is the official statement from the Vision Forum Board:
In light of the serious sins which have resulted in Doug Phillips’s resignation from Vision Forum Ministries, the Board of Directors has determined that it is in the best interests of all involved to discontinue operations. We have stopped receiving donations, and are working through the logistical matters associated with the closing of the ministry. While we believe as strongly as ever in the message of the ministry to the Christian family, we are grieved to find it necessary to make this decision. We believe this to be the best option for the healing of all involved and the only course of action under the circumstances.
Many of us have friends who have worked for VF and now will soon be without a job. We pray that they will quickly find a place to minister and use their gifts. We grieve for the sins that have affected that ministry, and while many may take the opportunity to offer a rhetorical blow against Phillips and the VF worldview, I grieve. My prayer is once again for fidelity to the Scriptures in this process, for Phillips’ elders as they guide him to continual repentance, also for continual repentance as Phillips seeks restoration with his family, and also the unknown woman a and her family whom he has also sinned against.
- Though her name is not known and though she is guilty for engaging Phillips in a romantic relationship, she and her family also need prayer through this time. As someone pointed out to me recently, sometimes the unknown figure never receives any prayer from the world becoming another unknown figure in the trail of pain and guilt (back)
