The last four weeks we’ve looked at the purity movement: what it is, the things it was right about and the two posts on what it was wrong about (which you can find here and here). You may be thinking, so what? What does a movement in the late 90’s early 2000’s have to do with life today? As I’ve …

Last week’s blog post listed four of the 8 major flaws that the purity movement had. While these weren’t things the purity movement set out to do, they were unintended consequences of its main messages about purity, sexuality, etc. We left off with problem number four last week, so we’ll pick up with number five this week. 5. Unhealthy obsession …

Last week on the blog, we looked at some things that the purity movement got right. There were some good things about the movement, things that we need to remember and embrace. However, there were many ways that the purity movement, though it had a good goal, went a little wonky. I’ve come up with eight ways that the purity …

Last week, my blog post looked at basics of the purity movement of the 1990’s and early 2000’s. You can go back to read the full post here, but here’s the Reader’s Digest version: It was a movement within the church to encourage Christian young people to stay sexually pure until marriage. The purity movement still matters today because we …