Sex

6 Truths about Sex

The church isn’t always completely honest about sex. Neither is the world. So what is the truth about sex? It would be super helpful to know what God himself, the person who created sex, said about it. That’s what this post would like to focus on. The Bible actually has a lot to say about sex. Below are a few …

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8 Ways the Purity Movement Went Wonky, Part 2

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 …

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8 Ways the Purity Movement Went Wonky, Part 1

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 …

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4 Things the Purity Movement Got Right

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 …

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The Purity Movement: What Is It and Why Should I Care?

When I was 11 years old, I didn’t know it, but I became a part of something that would be come to be known as the purity movement. I entered the movement by reading the book I Kissed Dating Good-Bye by Joshua Harris. The focus of the purity movement was to help young people remain sexually pure. In our sexualized …

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