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Purity Culture is such a shit show... and apparently, I have some deep-seated body-level healing to do from it. I figured that out a few days ago because Pastor Nadia had a podcast with Josh Harris, who wrote the 1990s PC bible, "I Kissed Dating Goodbye." That damn book not only spawned a plethora of further reading material (including…
Purity Culture is such a shit show... and apparently, I have some deep-seated body-level healing to do from it. I figured that out a few days ago because Pastor Nadia had a podcast with Josh Harris, who wrote the 1990s PC bible, "I Kissed Dating Goodbye." That damn book not only spawned a plethora of further reading material (including his own gloating courtship & marriage follow-up), but it codified what conservative Christian women were supposed to do. I went to a conservative university, which also had lots of rituals built around getting engaged (**freshman*** year, which 40-year-old me is horrified about now and 18-year-old me thought was completely nuts) that I luckily didn't get roped into. The Podcast was amazing, particularly for the level of grace that Nadia brought to the conversation. I am putting her book Shameless on the top of my "to read" pile once the semester ends. https://nadiabolzweber.com/303-joshua-harris/ (And I WISH she'd release the IGTV follow-up she did with him on Monday. There were some INCREDIBLE gems that I need to unpack more, but fear I'll forget them too quickly. I was particularly struck about when she left the Church of Christ she became militant in social justice, using the same tools she'd learned to evangelize. She had to re-learn how to NOT use those tools as she did her social justice work.)
I love Nadia Bolz-Weber!!