I’ll never forget the first thing I learned about sex: it belongs in the context of marriage. This seemed as non-negotiable a fact as “the sky is blue” or “too much ice cream will give you a ...

What explains the deep relationship between sex abuse, charlatanism, and religious purity movements? Sarah Posner, writing on the Duggar family and its connections to the world of separatist Christian ...

It’s a lot like a wedding, except to your dad. At purity balls, a relatively new Christian religious ceremony that’s gaining popularity, American girls (some as young as four) vow to their fathers ...

Then I found church fellowship. For evangelicals, the conversation about sexual purity in a libertine age is a perennial one. The purity culture of the ’90s, in particular, casts a long shadow and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1990s and 2000s, a Christian movement now known as “purity culture” reached its height. Purity culture was most significant ...

Last week, we looked at the Pharisaic approach to purity and contrasted it with Jesus’ approach. As we noted, it is easy to turn the Pharisees into cartoon villains and not see them as human beings ...