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

9 reviews

paigeross's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

2.0

After reading Counting the Cost, I saw this was available from the library and was a logical next book. Unfortunately, while the author was clear this wasn’t a tell-all I didn’t find it as informative and insightful as Counting the Cost. This just felt preachy and like an excuse to beat up on Gothard and IBLP teachings. 
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tillie__'s review

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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alisse's review against another edition

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2.75

I thought the writing was fine, but this was full of really complex traumas, and I spent the entire book highly concerned she was brushing off the absolute horrors she went through to just jump into a new cult. It all felt like a very high level view at what we now know was criminal sexual abuse that she personally experienced. 
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r_clark's review

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hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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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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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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allisonrandom's review

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

2.0

This book is pretty boring and not very well written. If you're interested in Christian theology, it may have some appeal. It offers little actual insight into the author's life or point of view, other than a few sections at the beginning where she reflects on growing up on television. 
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maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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amberjackonski's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

1.0

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