We patronized Vision Forum as well. I liked their Creationist materials, history books, and some other products. I also liked his emphasis on fathers’ being involved with their children, instead of coming home from work and hiding until the mother has put them all to bed.
I disagreed with some other points.
Doug Phillips wanted to spend time with his children so much that he hired a nanny and had sex with her every chance he could. Doug Phillips is another close associate of the Duggers along with Bill Gothard.
In principle, I agreed with much of what Vision Forum taught. However, when it came to specific application of those principles, the VF people tended to take it way too far. The legalistic emphasis of many of them with the idea that if you didn’t agree with them in every jot and tittle, you were in sin, made me leery of them. I had friends who raved about Doug Phillips and couldn’t understand why he gave me the willies. Now they know and most have admitted to me that I was right all along about my concerns about Doug Phillips.