21 January 2021
Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality
It's time to talk back. The generation born into evangelical purity culture has grown up, and many have started families of their own. But as time goes on, it's becoming more evident that many still struggle with purity culture's complicated legacy--its idolization of virginity, its mixed messages about modesty and lust, and its promise of a healthy marriage and great sex for those who follow the rules. In Talking Back to Purity Culture, Rachel Joy Welcher reviews the movement carefully, examining its teachings through the lens of Scripture. Compassionate, faithful, and wise, she charts a path forward for evangelicals in the ongoing debates about sexuality--one that rejects legalism and license alike, steering us back instead to the good news of Jesus. It's time to talk back to purity culture--and this book is ready to jump-start the conversation.
| Title | : | Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality |
| ISBN | : | 9780830848164 |
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This is a sex book. SUMMARY This is not a sex book.Rather, it's a sexuality book.Welcher writes after reading multiple purity culture books from the 90s/early-2000s and interviewing a host of pe...
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Rachel Joy Welcher has written a powerful new book about purity culture; what it is, what it did to a generation, and how to respond to it. Purity culture is a Christian movement that took place begin...
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Meticulously researched, saturated with the Scriptures, written with grace & courage, this is a towering achievement, indeed, the definitive work on “Purity Culture”....
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This book involves so many loaded topics that it is hard for me to know where to begin. Thus, I have immense respect for Rachel Joy Welcher, who took on the challenge of writing it. Throughout this bo...
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The Purity Culture movement dominated discussions in my youth. I became disenchanted years ago not with holding a Christian sex ethic but with the way Purity Culture had shaped faithful obedience into...
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Rachel Joy Welcher writes with grace and humility as she addresses the effects of Christian purity culture and its messages. Several of her points expressed thoughts or conversations I have had in rec...
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Welcher gives an excellent introduction and theological critique of the purity culture movement. Her reliance on actual stories and experiences from a variety of people makes this about real flesh-and...
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Rachel makes a beautiful statement in this book, as she quotes a mom talking about how she tries to view all of her kids' conversations, and - I'm paraphrasing - but it's about bringing everything int...
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This book will become a voice in the wilderness of our polarizing world. When I first received my copy of Talking Back to Purity Culture in July, I thought this was going to be a book that was just an...
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Talking Back to Purity Culture is not a book that claims to know everything, or that it is perfect.It is a book that asks us to look at the facts: what the purity culture was and is, how it impacted a...