I Was The Face Of Purity At My Small Christian College. For Years, I Told No One What My Ministry Leader Did To Me.

When labor leader Dolores Huerta recently shared that she had experienced ****** violence during her years building the ...
Religion News Service

How the purity movement created a sense of shame in evangelical women

(The Conversation) — Extreme abstinence culture goes beyond sexual mores to advise women not to pursue leadership roles or speak out in mixed company. (The Conversation) — Millennial evangelicals are ...
WUFT

30 years later, the evangelical purity movement still impacts sex education

On July 29, 1994, thousands of teenagers gathered in Washington, D.C., to tell the nation about their pledge to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. They covered the lawn of the National Mall ...
The Daytona Beach News-Journal

Inside the purity movement and its effect on evangelical women

(THE CONVERSATION) Millennial evangelicals are speaking out about the heightened emphasis on sexual purity that characterized their upbringing in that subculture. Joshua Harris, a former pastor who ...
Religion News Service

Britney Spears: An icon for purity culture's wounded women

(RNS) — Britney Spears’ battle with her father over the conservatorship that has controlled her estimated $60 million fortune for the past 13 years has captivated widespread audiences — from probate ...