In the 1990s and 2000s, a Christian movement now known as “purity culture” reached its height. Purity culture was most significant in America, and since the noughties, it has gradually faded from ...

The Maryland megachurch where author Joshua Harris once pastored responded to his announcement that shocked many conservative Christians across the nation. Harris, the author of "I Kissed Dating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A leader in the Christian purity movement has announced he is "falling away" from Christianity and says he regrets his teachings on dating and sexuality. Joshua Harris, who first came to notice when ...

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 ...

Joshua Harris, a prominent leader of the Evangelical purity movement, has changed his mind about the messaging in his 1997 book, "I Kissed Dating Goodbye." Harris has asked his publisher to stop ...

Last weekend, Joshua Harris, the megachurch pastor and author of several Christian relationship books, posted a lengthy note on Instagram in which he apologized to the LGBTQ community and said that he ...