Doug Phillips (speaker)

Phillips was born into a Christian family with Jewish heritage.{{cite web |work=Issues 2000 |url=http://www.issues2000.org/Profile_Howard_Phillips.htm |title=Profile of Howard Phillips}} His father was Constitution Party founder Howard Phillips and his mother was Margaret "Peggy" Phillips (née Blanchard). Phillips is the eldest of six children: his younger siblings being Amanda (b. 1966), Brad (b. 1968), Jennifer (b. 1974), Alexandra (b. 1978), and Samuel Joshua (b. 1986).

He also worked for six years as a lawyer for the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA).{{cite web |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/head-of-hslda-blasts-doug-phillips-biblical-patriarchy-practices.html |title=Head of the Home School Legal Defense Association Blasts Doug Phillips' Biblical Patriarchy Practices|last=Lee|first=Morgan|date=April 16, 2014|website=Christian Post|access-date=February 1, 2019}}

Phillips is the founder of the defunct San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.{{cite book |title=If Eve Only Knew: Freeing Yourself from Biblical Womanhood and Becoming All God Means for You to Be |publisher=Chalice Press |author=Weddle Irons, Kendra |author2=Springer Mock, Melanie |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-8272-1670-9}} Phillips produced a documentary The League of Grateful Sons in 2004 about the soldiers who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima.{{cite video |people=Wendy Griffith |date=May 19, 2006 |title=Doug Phillips Documentary on Iwo Jima |url=http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/vod/DouglasPhillips_051906 |publisher=CBN Newswatch |access-date=March 3, 2011}} In 2009, Phillips led "a team of scientists and investigators, including John D. Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research" to the Galápagos Islands for the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's life, and produced a documentary entitled The Mysterious Islands.{{cite news |title=Video disputes Darwin |last=Yonke |first=David |date=October 31, 2009 |newspaper=The Blade |place=Toledo}}{{cite press release |url=http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/1642912211.html |title=More than 2,500 to Attend Tampa Premiere of 'The Mysterious Islands' – a New Film Shot on the Galapagos Islands Which Challenges Darwin |last=Wooding |first=Gregg |date=November 18, 2009 |work=Christian News Wire |access-date=March 1, 2011}}

Phillips' teachings have been criticized as promoting a biblical worldview that is considered by some to be oppressive to women and girls. In 2014, Michael Farris, the chairman and cofounder of the Home School Legal Defense Association, criticized the biblical patriarchy beliefs of his former HSLDA colleague Doug Phillips, and said he regrets not speaking out against him sooner. He said,

{{Quote | He was teaching that girls should never go to college. …I started a college where half the student body is female and PHC just elected a woman student as the president of the student body. He was teaching that girls should basically stay in their father's home until marriage. I sent my oldest daughter off to Cedarville University and my second daughter off to Romania as a missionary. I thought my actions would speak louder than his words. I wish I had used words too.}}

Phillips resigned as president of Vision Forum on October 30, 2013 after acknowledging a "lengthy… relationship with a woman" which was "inappropriately affectionate and romantic."{{cite web |last=Phillips |first=Doug |title=Statement of Resignation |url=http://visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/statement_of_resignation.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103025522/http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/statement_of_resignation.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 November 2013 |access-date=31 October 2013}}{{cite web |last=Phillips |first=Doug |title=Clarification on Resignation |url=http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/clarification_on_resignation.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115130459/http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/clarification_on_resignation.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 November 2013 |access-date=18 November 2013}} On November 11, 2013, Vision Forum Ministries' board of directors discontinued operations citing "serious sins" which prompted Phillips' resignation.{{cite web |last=Phillips |first=Doug |title=The Closing of Vision Forum Ministries |url=http://visionforumministries.org |access-date=25 February 2014}} According to The Christian Post, Vision Forum, Inc., Phillips' for-profit business, "appeared to have a liquidation sale" in December 2013.{{cite web |last=Lee |first=Morgan |title=Doug Phillips' Former Church Disappointed with His Disobedient Departure as Elder Who Confessed Affair |url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/doug-phillips-former-church-disappointed-with-his-disobedient-departure-as-elder-who-confessed-affair-122965/ |website=Christian Post |date=July 11, 2014 |access-date=August 4, 2016}}

On April 15, 2014, the Phillips family's ex-nanny filed a lawsuit against Phillips and Vision Forum, alleging that she had suffered years of sexual abuse at the hands of Doug Phillips. Phillips denied the abuse charges, according to Julie Ingersoll, "calling them sensationalist and suggesting that they are motivated by a desire for financial gain."

On November 17, 2014, Phillips was excommunicated from Boerne Christian Assembly, the church that he founded.{{cite web|url=http://www.boernechristianassembly.org/articles/2014/doug_phillips.php |title=Update Regarding Doug Phillips |date=November 17, 2014 |first1=Jeff |last1=Horn |first2=David |last2=Fry |access-date=November 22, 2014 |url-status=dead |publisher=Boerne Christian Assembly |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218040813/http://www.boernechristianassembly.org/articles/2014/doug_phillips.php |archive-date=February 18, 2015}} Phillips had left the church in July.{{cite web |last=Dean |first=Jamie |date=July 8, 2014 |title=Doug Phillips leaves the church he founded |url=https://www.wng.org/sift/doug-phillips-leaves-the-church-he-founded-1617420087 |website=World mag}}

Phillips and his wife Beall met at college, where Doug Phillips ran a Christian newspaper and Beall ran a ministry to unwed mothers called Alternatives to Abortion. Beall Phillips was herself adopted. Together, Doug and Beall Phillips have eight children: Joshua, Justice, Liberty, Jubilee, Faith Evangeline, Honor, Providence and Virginia.{{cite book |title=Be Fruitfull and Multiply|last=Campbell|first=Nancy|year=2003|publisher=Vision Forum|location=San Antonio|isbn=0-9724173-5-4}}{{cite web |url=http://www.visionforumministries.org/home/about/about_the_president.aspx |title=About the President |access-date=2007-01-23 |publisher=Vision Forum Ministries |year=2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070124105219/http://www.visionforumministries.org/home/about/about_the_president.aspx |archive-date=2007-01-24}}

Phillips has written or edited the following books, published by his own company Vision Forum:

• {{cite book |title=The Bible Lessons of John Quincy Adams for His Son |year=2000 |publisher=Vision Forum |isbn=1-929241-22-4 }}
• {{cite book |title=The Letters and Lessons of Teddy Roosevelt for His Sons |year=2001 |publisher=Vision Forum |isbn=1-929241-32-1 }}
• {{cite book |title=Robert Lewis Dabney: The Prophet Speaks |year=2003 |publisher=Vision Forum |isbn=1-929241-41-0 }}
• {{cite book |title=Poems for Patriarchs |year=2003 |publisher=Vision Forum |isbn=1-929241-45-3 }}
• {{cite book |title=The Birkenhead Drill |year=2004 |publisher=Vision Forum |isbn=1-929241-46-1 }}
• {{cite book |title=The Little Boy Down the Road: Short Stories & Essays on the Beauty of Family Life |year=2008 |publisher=Vision Forum |isbn=1-934554-34-0 }}

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