Purity Culture

After 36 years of marriage and a life in ministry, Marty and Stephanie know how easy it is for your calling to consume your time, energy, and identity. They join Dave and Ashley to talk about setting healthy boundaries, finding support, and continuing to pursue each other so your ...  Show more

Grab your headband and cue the synth: Dave and Ashley are going totally 80s for this one. Behind the mullet and the windbreakers, though, is a real conversation about how marriage has changed over the last 40 years. They dig into the stats: why the median age of first marriage ju ...  Show more

This episode is all about dating, relationships, and purity culture. Purity culture was a movement within some Christian communities during the 90's and 00's that rejected dating and replaced it with courtship. The idea behind it seemed good: helping young people pursue relations ...  Show more

This week we are talking about growing up in purity culture and how that has affected us to this day. We talk in-depth about guilt and shame associated with sex in this environment, the struggle to find yourself sexually, how lonely it can feel, and more!

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Send a textEp. 190 - The two of us grew up at the height of the purity culture movement. We read the classic "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" and every other Christian book on courtship. We dated intentionally, wore our purity rings religiously and saved our kisses for marriage. Do we r ...  Show more