Archive

Evidence Archive

The full archive is in progress on two tracks. The first is a complete catalog of Vision Forum Ministries' own materials — its sales catalogs and an 81-album audio collection, alongside its curricula. The second, now also underway, is a broader index of books, magazines, blogs, and archived websites from across the wider network this project documents. What follows is a curated set of highlights: primary sources that already appear as figures in “A Line in the Sand,” presented here as a preview of the browsable library to come.

Already Gone Catalog Listing

2011

Already Gone Catalog Listing

A catalog listing for Ken Ham and Britt Beemer's Already Gone, marketed within the movement's own retail ecosystem as a diagnosis of why the movement's children leave — and, implicitly, as a tool for preventing it.

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The Duggars: 20 and Counting / Jubilee Award, 2009 SAICFF

2009

The Duggars: 20 and Counting / Jubilee Award, 2009 SAICFF

Documents the movement's crossover into mainstream reality television as a distribution channel, and its own internal award system for content that modeled its household ideals to a national audience.

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The Venture Academy DVD Training Series

2010

The Venture Academy DVD Training Series

Marketed as an alternative to a "$46,000... Harvard MBA," this business-training series shows the movement's economic teaching arm operating alongside its religious and political material — Weber's Protestant ethic, sold on DVD.

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Vision Forum Ministries Catalog Cover Art, 1998–2008

1998–2008

Vision Forum Ministries Catalog Cover Art, 1998–2008

A decade of catalog cover art tracing the visual and ideological branding of the homeschool-patriarchy movement as it scaled into a media operation.

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Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy Advertisement

2011

Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy Advertisement

Advertising copy for a law-and-policy training pipeline, showing the movement's explicit ambition to place its own graduates inside legal and governing institutions rather than simply persuade from outside them.

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