The Southern Baptist Convention 2022 annual meeting overwhelmingly voted to approve reforms to address sexual abuse in the denomination. A devastating yearlong investigation had recently documented ...

(RNS) — The shock of Joshua Harris’ deconversion has still not worn off. Even Harris can’t seem to stop replaying his disavowal of Christianity. In the summer of 2019, Harris, once the darling of ...

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Purity culture messaging is everywhere. Even if you didn’t grow up particularly religious or even if you had fully atheist caregivers, it’s likely you’ve been exposed to messages from purity culture ...

Matthew Lee Anderson makes a true and necessary point about Josh Harris’s apostasy and the subsequent critiques of Evangelical “purity culture.” Excerpts: For many critics, though, critiquing ‘purity ...

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(RNS) — In ‘Recovering from Purity Culture,’ Camden Morgante confronts the damage of shame-based sexuality and charts a path forward. (RNS) — Whether it was wearing a “True Love Waits” ring, reading ...

For many people, changing their religious orientation also means shifting their relationship with sexuality. Purity culture has had an enormous impact on Evangelical Christians in the United States, ...

The phrase "purity culture" usually conjures sexual mores and the political right. After all, it's conservatives who care about purity and sanctity. It's primarily evangelicals who participate in the ...