September 05, 2022
If you grew up in the church in the ‘90s, you probably experienced purity culture—it was the church’s response to the increasing promiscuity in society. Unintentionally, purity culture caused significant harm and didn't fully capture God’s heart towards sex and individual value. In this episode, we share what we believe to be a more biblical view of sex and relationships. We hope you enjoy the conversation.
Notes:
- I Kissed Dating Goodbye, by Joshua Harris
- BarlowGirl
- True Love Waits
- WayMaker, by Ann Voskamp
- "However well-intentioned purity culture might have been, it was also guilty of gross errors. It made Christian purity a function of sexual history and behavior, not spiritual rebirth. It saddled women with the responsibility for male lust and failed the victims of sexual abuse. Further, it made unqualified promises of marriage, children, and great sex to everyone who pledged to wait." Jen Pollock Michel in Don’t Overstate the Rewards of Sexual Faithfulness. Don’t Understate Them Either. Christianity Today
- Live No Lies, by John Mark Comer
- Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, by Christine Emba
- The Joe Rogan Experience, Guest Russell Brand
- "What if women are fully human divine image-bearers who should be treated as persons with eternal dignity, rather than sex objects who exist primarily to tempt men and/or satiate men’s appetites? And what if we treated them as such? And didn’t tolerate anyone who does otherwise?" - Emily Hunter McGowin, Theologian, Twitter
- God of All Things: Rediscovering the Sacred in an Everyday World, by Andrew Wilson
- The Intentional Father, by Jon Tyson
- The Great Sex Rescue, by Sheila Wray Gregoire and Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach
- Waterstone's Counselor Referral Network
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