{"id":1580,"date":"2016-09-06T07:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2016-09-22T08:28:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:28:44","slug":"stop-the-ubf-campus-shepherding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/stop-the-ubf-campus-shepherding\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the UBF Campus Shepherding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1582\" src=\"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/p-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"p\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/p-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/p.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There are &#8220;campus shepherds&#8221; on over 300 colleges and universities from a new religious group called University Bible Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>We, the undersigned, call on the leaders of the UBF shepherding system to stop the following:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Stop appointing personal, lifelong moral supervisors (aka &#8220;shepherds&#8221;) over students&#8217; young adult lives.<\/p>\n<p>2. Stop arranging marriages between UBF members, a practice called &#8220;marriage by faith&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>3. Admit and acknowledge (and put and end to) the mountain of eye-witness testimony regarding many kinds of abuse the UBF shepherding system has allowed, including, but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demanding unnecessary sacrifice of students, including ordering abortions as a requirement to become a missionary, cutting off ties with family and friends, and pressuring students to offer money.<\/li>\n<li>Training students to obey through &#8220;dead dog training&#8221;, such as by having them walk barefoot 5 miles, to drive 3 hours every week to attend meetings, and to stand in ice water.<\/li>\n<li>Intruding into students&#8217; lives through undue religious influence, excessive daily, weekly and monthly meetings, and unhealthy indoctrination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information about University Bible Fellowship, a Korean campus ministry, can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ubfriends.net\/\">http:\/\/wiki.ubfriends.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/abraham-t-kim-stop-the-ubf-campus-shepherding\">Please sign this petition<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are &#8220;campus shepherds&#8221; on over 300 colleges and universities from a new religious group called University Bible Fellowship. We, the undersigned, call on the leaders of the UBF shepherding system to stop the following:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}