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 ...

Purity culture is about more than bodily purity. It’s about national purity. It’s about racial purity. It’s about ethnic purity. Okay. So if we bring all these things together, we have a man who seems ...

(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 ...

A used tissue. A crushed flower. A chewed up piece of gum. Images meant to illustrate the dangers of premarital sex can inspire feelings of guilt and shame for those who grew up in purity culture, ...

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We pledged the pledge. We made the promise. Purity culture failed to deliver. Now what? Purity culture was at its height while Katelyn and Roxy grew up — and the teachings made an impact. But what to ...

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 ...

As Americans face the reality that Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973, will almost certainly be overturned in a matter of days or weeks, we must contend with the ...

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, ...