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Vision Forum was an
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organization based in
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. It was founded in 1998; its president was Doug Phillips, son of
U.S. Constitution Party The Constitution Party, named the U.S. Taxpayers' Party until 1999, is an ultra-conservative political party in the United States that promotes a religiously conservative interpretation of the principles and intents of the United States C ...
leader Howard Phillips. Vision Forum Ministries was a
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non-profit organization which was closed by its board of directors in November 2013 after Doug Phillips' confession of marital infidelity and allegations of sexual abuse. The associated commercial operation, called Vision Forum, Inc., continued to operate until January 2014, when it was announced that it too was shutting down operations. Vision Forum advocated for
biblical patriarchy Biblical patriarchy, also known as Christian patriarchy, is a set of beliefs in Evangelical Protestant Christianity concerning gender relations and their manifestations in institutions, including marriage, the family, and the home. It sees the f ...
,
creationism Creationism is the faith, religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of Creation myth, divine creation, and is often Pseudoscience, pseudoscientific.#Gunn 2004, Gun ...
,
homeschooling Homeschooling or home schooling (American English), also known as home education or elective home education (EHE) (British English), is the education of school-aged children at home or a variety of places other than a school. Usually conducted ...
,
Family Integrated Church In Christianity, a family integrated church is one in which parents and children ordinarily attend church services together; during the service of worship, children and youth stay all through church services and do not attend children's and youth ...
es, and
Quiverfull Quiverfull is a Christian theological position that sees large families as a blessing from God. It encourages procreation, abstaining from all forms of birth control, natural family planning, and sterilization reversal. The movement derives its ...
beliefs.


Events

The organization sponsored the Christian Filmmakers Academy and the
San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (SAICFF) was a film festival located in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded and organized by Doug Phillips. The ''Best of Festival'' or ''Jubilee Award'' carried a $101,000 cash prize. The festival w ...
. In 2007, the group organized an alternative celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, saying that the official celebration did not give enough emphasis to the Christian perspective of the settlers.


''Jonathan Park''

''Jonathan Park'' is a
radio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, dramatised, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the liste ...
series created by Pat and Sandy Roy at the
Institute for Creation Research The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) is a creationist apologetics institute in Dallas, Texas, that specializes in media promotion of pseudoscientific creation science and interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative as a historical e ...
in the late 1990s that was later produced by Vision Forum Ministries. The storyline revolves around the lives and families of fictional characters Dr. Kendall Park and Jim Brenan as they build a
creation museum The Creation Museum, located in Petersburg, Boone County, Kentucky, Petersburg, Kentucky, United States, is a museum that promotes the pseudoscience, pseudoscientific Young Earth creationism, young Earth creationist (YEC) explanation of the or ...
. After Vision Forum folded, ownership of the ''Jonathan Park'' series was transferred to CreationWorks, a ministry founded by series creators Pat and Sandy Roy. One album was released under that banner in 2014 before the series was acquired by Wise King Media in 2016.


Albums

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Criticism

Vision Forum was criticized for holding views that were demeaning of women and viewed them as property. Don and Joy Veinot of
Midwest Christian Outreach Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc (MCOI), is a non-denominational, conservative evangelical organization.
interpreted Vision Forum's statement on "The Tenets of Biblical Patriarchy" to imply that "women really cannot be trusted as decision makers" and "unless a daughter marries, she functionally remains pretty much the ''property'' of the father until he dies." Similar criticisms were voiced when a lawsuit was filed against Doug Phillips and Vision Forum by a woman who had worked as the Phillips family's nanny. Her suit alleged that Phillips had sexually abused her for years. Phillips acknowledged an "inappropriate relationship" but denied all charges of sexual abuse, calling them "sensationalist and suggesting that they are motivated by a desire for financial gain."


References


Bibliography

* {{cite journal , first1=L. L. (Don) , last1=Veinot , first2=Joy , last2=Veinot , title=The Cult of Character , journal=Midwest Christian Outreach Journal , url=http://www.midwestoutreach.org/Pdf%20Journals/2007/spring_2007.pdf , date=Spring 2007 , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219030311/http://www.midwestoutreach.org/Pdf%20Journals/2007/spring_2007.pdf , archive-date=February 19, 2009


External links


Vision Forum Ministries
– non-profit organization Alternative education organizations Christian organizations based in the United States Calvinist organizations established in the 20th century Christian organizations established in 1998 Organizations based in San Antonio Religious organizations disestablished in 2013