In a new series interviewing women who write on the web and shape its discussions, we speak to a Christian blogger and author of the upcoming book Damaged Goods: New Perspectives on Christian Purity ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joshua Harris, who literally wrote the book on Christian purity in the 1990s, announced in July on Instagram that he and his wife, Shannon, were separating after more than 20 years of marriage. Less ...

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 ...

L. William Countryman earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago and is Professor of New Testament at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. He is the author of Dirt ...