Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
Jack Rakove, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, is back with another prize-worthy book, Beyond Belief, Beyond…
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Are Evangelicals Sweetness and Light or Enablers of Cruelty and Racism? Gender Roles Hint at an Answer
Have white evangelicals been unfairly demonized by scholars and pundits alike in the run-up to…
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Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties
The 2020 results of Ligonier Ministries’ and Lifeway Research’s State of Theology Survey, a project…
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‘Purity’ Guru Joshua Harris May Have Left Evangelicalism But He’s Still a Member of the Church of Patriarchy
Though he’s embarked on an apology tour and starred in a documentary examining his mistakes and the damage they’ve caused, Joshua Harris has yet to face the hard questions about the patriarchal ideology that shaped the purity movement and his own path.
Read MoreChristian ‘Purity’ Guru’s Loss of Faith May Signal a Coming Reckoning For Conservative Christianity
Attitudes about sex have come to signal a person or group’s attitudes about modernity itself. Arguments about gender roles, birth control, abortion, sex education, and LGBTQ rights have become central to the religious and political identity of American Christians.
Read More‘Son Worry’ and the Hypocrisy of the ‘Purity’ Movement
Those in the throes of “son panic” contend that the greatest danger regarding sexual assault is to the reputations of innocent men. But there’s a problem here.
Read MoreNew Book Details Harms of Evangelical ‘Purity’ Movement and the Obstacle to Change
In ‘Pure,’ Klein tells the stories of women wrestling with anxiety, sexual dysfunction, crises of religious identity, and even a kind of religious-based PTSD.
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Evangelical “Sexual Purity” Is Not About Sex—It’s About Power
A Q&A with author Sara Moslener about “Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence”
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Josh Duggar and the Purity Lie
Josh Duggar, the oldest son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, stars of “reality” TV…
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Traditional Mormon Sexual Purity Lesson Contributed to Captivity, Elizabeth Smart Tells University Audience
Eleven years ago, we asked why she didn’t run, but inside we already knew.
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