Purity

June 14, 2022

Patriarchy, Purity Culture Are Blocking Efforts to Address SBC Sexual Abuse Scandal

As a scholar of evangelicalism, gender and American culture, I have seen how deeply ingrained aspects of conservative white evangelicalism force women to stay silent. The […]
December 30, 2019

From Virgin Births to Purity Movements: Christians and Their Problem With Sex

Sometime in the early fifth century Christians transformed a tradition about Jesus’s virgin birth into a doctrine that connected sex with sin. More The post From […]
September 12, 2018

What It’s Like Growing Up in the Evangelical Purity Movement

A Q&A with Linda Kay Klein, the author of the new book ‘Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How […]