Purity CULTure

From Joshua Harris’ powerfully influential book I Kissed Dating Goodbye to Bill Gothard’s Institute in Basic Life Principles to abstinence pledges to multi-layered cottage industries of virtue and chastity, the Christian, homeschool scene of the past several decades has been saturated in a movement seeking purity from a sexualized and secularized world loosely defined as Purity Culture.  What is Purity Culture?  How and why did it come about?  What have the lasting effects of the movement been?  What are the pros and cons of its basic tenets and teachings?

 

Brooke Medina leads the group in discussing these very questions.  All four hosts had experience growing up in Purity Culture and bring their unique perspectives to the conversation.  But wait!  There’s more!  For the first time the hosts welcome a guest as Calvin Moore’s wife, Jennifer Moore, joins the episode to bring balance to the otherwise overly male-centric dynamics of the group.