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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by Jinger Duggar Vuolo, Jinger Vuolo

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dawndiscusses's review against another edition

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informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

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thefoxicorn's review against another edition

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Unfortunately I didn't get very far into this book before deciding I have other books I'd rather spend my time on. This book feels more like an ad for Christianity than anything else. Everything she says still feels impossibly restrained and impersonal. She only really scratches the surface level of her life before she brings it back to some form of "but I do really love God though". She mentions being a performative people-pleaser and this feels like she's still doing that, simply through a different format.

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angrynerd's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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lauracaitlinmangelsdorf's review against another edition

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Too many Bible verses and lack of detail in descriptions.

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tillie__'s review

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

I have recently become reinterested in the Duggar's story, and so I wanted to pick up this book.
"Becoming Free Indeed" is a book that explores how author Jinger Duggar Vuolo has worked to separate her love for God and belief in him from her traumatic religious upbringing. Jinger loved her childhood and her family, but as she got older, she began to question if the God she believed in would really require the strict practices and beliefs preached to her under the Gothard teachings.
This was a really quick read, and I ended up listening to it as an audiobook. The audiobook is narrated by Jinger, which I really appreciated. I love when authors narrate their own books, especially nonfiction, because it feels like they are sharing their life story in a more intimate way.
I do not think this book is ground-breaking, but I think it is inspirational to hear how someone can maintain their faith and find their way after the strict cult-like upbringing they had.

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scarlett_f's review against another edition

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hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

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snoopyfanclub's review against another edition

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informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

This book is mostly about the Bible & jinger explaining how IBLP misunderstood the Bible. The parts of the book I enjoyed were actual stories from Jinger’s life. She briefly touches on bill gothard’s abuse as well as vaguely her own brothers. She repeatedly mentions how her parents are amazing and did such a great job while ignoring the fact that her parents reinforced bill gothard’s teachings and the whole web of abuse that directly affected her.

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vannahcabana's review against another edition

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

This book was better than I anticipated. Growing up, I watched Jinger on tv and then followed her journey on Instagram. I didn’t grow up under Gothard’s teachings, but the school I attended had a lot of the same beliefs. I really resonated with her journey from a legalistic faith to disentangling and truly following and trusting Christ.

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abbyschafer's review

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hopeful reflective fast-paced

2.5

Really happy for Jinger and how she’s been able to remove herself from the IBLP cult. It sounds like she’s in a pretty healthy place! I enjoyed listening to her journey of disentangling herself and her faith from the harmful ideologies she was raised to believe.

I do hope she continues to learn and grow in her thoughts and beliefs. Specifically, when she talks about how her family used to go on mission trips to prisons to spread Gothard’s message. Her new perspective on this is that she should have been doing practically the same thing, but spreading Jesus’s teachings instead. Lack of religion is not the problem with prisons and telling prisoners how to “truly be free, with the love of Jesus” is just so frustratingly ignorant of the prison industrial complex and would be so aggravating to hear as someone physically locked in a cage.

I did fully enjoy listening to this book, even though I don’t agree with everything said and don't believe all the same things Jinger does, but I had to dock the review a star because of the statement “I would be happy to be His [Jesus] slave” I understand what Jinger is trying to say and that she isnt talking about slavery in a historical or even human sense, but still I do not think any White American should be making statements saying they would happily be a slave.

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