Earlier this year, just shy of his Frisco megachurch's 25th anniversary, lead pastor John McKinzie confronted one of the most challenging situations in his time as a pastor. A former student pastor at ...

A recent study published in The Journal of Sex Research suggests that exposure to strict religious sexual teachings can ...

Purity culture messaging is everywhere. Even if you didn’t grow up particularly religious or even if you had fully atheist caregivers, it’s likely you’ve been exposed to messages from purity culture ...

Following are NCR reader responses to recent news articles, opinion columns and theological essays with letters that have been edited for length and clarity. Last Saturday's article by Jean ...

For many people, changing their religious orientation also means shifting their relationship with sexuality. Purity culture has had an enormous impact on Evangelical Christians in the United States, ...

You can see it in YouTube video essays, TikTok comments and social media trends. Purity culture is back. Waves of tradwife influencers like Nara Smith and Ballerina Farm, rising numbers of religious ...

(RNS) — Harris seems to recognize that his books gave women a wrong view about our sexuality and our relationships but fails to mention the damage his toxic teachings did to our faith. (RNS) — The ...