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Purity Myth
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Josh Harris Is Kissing His Marriage Goodbye
Reading Time: 9 minutes Coming as it did right near the height of evangelical dominance in America, courtship culture rapidly achieved widespread acceptance in that crowd. But recently, a new development has demonstrated just what a terrible system it has been–even for Josh Harris, its creator.
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Lord Snow Presides… Over Mark Driscoll’s Bad Advice About Marriage. (#18)
Reading Time: 9 minutes Mark Driscoll’s blog has been a treasure trove lately, as he struggles to resolve one of his religion’s greatest failings: its defective and faulty teachings about marriage. One can see why half his his blog appears to be composed of advice regarding marriage–Christians labor under a divorce rate that screams out the truth about their religion’s poor teachings, and the further right into the religion one progresses the worse marriages get and the more acrimonious and frequent the divorces seem to be. Mark Driscoll happens to stand way to the right in his religion, so one can easily excuse him for being thus concerned. Today Lord Snow Presides…. over Mark Driscoll’s terrible not-good ineffective guaranteed-to-fail marriage advice.
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T’is the Season: Virgin Births.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Christians’ weird way of engaging with virginity is a big problem in their culture, as well as a sign of something seriously wrong at its core. Some recent events have reminded me anew of that dysfunction.
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Why Christian Art Sucks: BYU Boogaloo.
Reading Time: 9 minutes We’ve noted in the past (extensively, really) that Christian media sucks. And their preferences for visual art are no exception. Waverly Giles tried to make something that was off the beaten track, something that might challenge the viewer a little more than the usual Olan Mills-style portrait sitting or awkward family photo, and she got smacked hard for her impertinence.
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Joshua Harris Wants to Know if Anyone Was Hurt By His Book
Reading Time: 8 minutes Josh Harris is one of the scions of the homeschooling and courtship fringes of the Christian Patriarchy movement. He wrote one of the single most destructive books ever published on the topic of evangelical Christian relationships. And he’s got an announcement.
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Anna Duggar and the Impossible Decision: Why They Stay.
Reading Time: 9 minutes There are reasons why women in Anna Duggar’s position don’t leave husbands like Josh Duggar. Today I want to talk about some of those reasons.
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Taylor Swift’s Bubble.
Reading Time: 13 minutes “You Belong With Me” is a fairy tale about the Purity Myth–and about how conforming to it can win young women what they want. Unfortunately, fairy tales are rarely very in tune with reality.
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How the Purity Myth Destroys Lives.
Reading Time: 14 minutes We’ve talked about the Purity Myth off and on here, and even knowing what I know about it I still get completely blindsided sometimes by the dramatic examples of lives that have been destroyed by it. Today we’re going to look at one of those lives–and talk about that person’s mistakes in perception.
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The Curious Case of the Undesirable Virgin.
Reading Time: 11 minutes Christian culture thinks about virginity in a very particular way, and that’s what we’re going to talk about today.