(RNS) — In ‘Recovering from Purity Culture,’ Camden Morgante confronts the damage of shame-based sexuality and charts a path forward. (RNS) — Whether it was wearing a “True Love Waits” ring, reading ...

Jonathan Franzen (“The Corrections”) is often regarded less as writer than as cultural signifier, emblem of white male hegemony. That this has little if anything to do with the substance of his novels ...

The phrase "purity culture" usually conjures sexual mores and the political right. After all, it's conservatives who care about purity and sanctity. It's primarily evangelicals who participate in the ...

"In the evangelical community, an 'impure' girl or woman isn’t just seen as damaged; she’s considered dangerous," Linda Kay Klein writes in her new book Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that ...

What inspired you to write Virgin Nation? I’ve been familiar with evangelical purity movements since I was an evangelical teenager. When I was young, “Why Wait?” by Josh McDowell was the only national ...