Doug Phillips, an outspoken proponent of male “dominion” over women and a leading home-schooling activist, has stepped down as president of his Texas-based Vision Forum Ministries after admitting to an inappropriate relationship with a woman.
After cancelling all planned speaking engagements, Phillips, however, on Wednesday (Nov. 6) said he will still maintain ownership of the affiliated Vision Forum Inc., a for-profit company.
Phillips, who has eight children with his wife Beall, wrote on the ministry website on Oct. 30 that he would step down as a ministry leader.
“I engaged in a lengthy, inappropriate relationship with a woman,” he wrote. “While we did not ‘know’ each other in a Biblical sense, it was nevertheless inappropriately romantic and affectionate.”
Calls to Vision Forum Ministries were not returned.
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Jen's Gems -- Doug Phillips' Ecclesiastical Tyranny and Abuse 
November 7, 2013 at 8:18 pm
Is it just me or are a lot of Doug Phillips’ highly opinionated friends unusually quiet about Doug’s It wasn’t biblical sex because we didn’t go all the way affair and his subsequent resignation from Vision Forum Ministries?
This comment confirmed my impressions:
Add to this quiet list the extremely mouthy and Kevin Swanson who has an opinion about everything.
I find it more than odd that Kevin Swanson and Doug Phillips were so outspoken when their bosom buddy R.C. Sproul Jr. was defrocked from the ministry a few years back. Now when their good friend Doug Phillips’ Titanic is foundering Swanson and Sproul are playing the part of Captain Stanley Lord (of the Californian, ship that ignored the Titanic’s SOS radio calls).
It seems that if a pastor is only guilty of such minor things as spiritual abuse, tax fraud, etc, he’ll have plenty of his fellow abusers come rushing to his aid. But as bad as these men are none of them want to be seen offering aid to a philanderer. Just wouldn’t be right for their image.
November 7, 2013 at 8:31 pm
Yes, Geoff, the players in this game seem to be singing a different tune these days.
November 7, 2013 at 10:09 pm
me thinks they are running scared and this is way much more than JUST an “emotional affair”
November 7, 2013 at 10:13 pm
The President of major ministry does NOT step down for an “emotional affair.” 🙂
November 7, 2013 at 10:29 pm
especially with his track record………..and history
November 7, 2013 at 10:10 pm
the ONLY thing Voddie said was “pray for HIS FAMILY”
November 7, 2013 at 10:14 pm
That is a good thing to do. 🙂
November 7, 2013 at 10:20 pm
yes but he didn’t say pray for him or the young lady involved……….
November 7, 2013 at 10:24 pm
Oh. Well, them, too. I would guess that he truly meant to include them.
November 12, 2013 at 2:36 pm
Where did Jennie Chancey say something?
November 7, 2013 at 8:46 pm
I, too, have wondered why Kevin Swanson hasn’t weighed in on this.
November 7, 2013 at 9:51 pm
Ask and ye shall receive?
Ask and ye shall receive? Not really. The description of this radio program gives the impression that in it Kevin Swanson responds in some fashion to the “flurry of discussion” over the “Vision Forum announcement.” He doesn’t. He ends with, “I hope this has been a helpful discussion.” In my estimation, at least insofar as it concerns the Doug Phillips scandal, it doesn’t.
As far as Swanson’s assessment that “everybody’s a hypocrite” I couldn’t disagree more. Perhaps Kevin Swanson is a hypocrite, but he shouldn’t project his hypocritical character issues onto everyone else.
November 7, 2013 at 10:10 pm
What a NON-statement. Everyone sins, but we all have different sins. Hypocrisy is not one I personally struggle with, but there are plenty of others!
November 7, 2013 at 10:08 pm
reading from several other sources, he DID step down in February.
November 7, 2013 at 10:12 pm
Yes, I confirmed that also.