The college crowned me its queen during my freshman year, and “True Love Waits” was quite literally my campaign platform.

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 ...

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 ...

My husband and I grew up going to church and following the True Love Waits movement. We were to fully abstain from sex until we were married; otherwise, sex was a sin. But the silver bands with "True ...

In addition to demonizing Latinx and Black immigrants coming from the U.S. southern border and using their bodies as props to promote himself and his far-right agenda, DeSantis and Republicans in the ...

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 ...

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 ...