Talking Back to Purity Culture
Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality

Talking Back to Purity Culture purports to offer a way of undoing the harm of purity culture in the American Evangelical church. In practice, while I think it gets a few things right, it ultimately just offers up a slightly repackaged version of the same thing we had in the 90's. Here's what I think......more

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 people involved in that movement. In some ways, it reminded me of The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomi......more

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 beginning in the late 20th Century and has extended into the 21st Century. It was a direct response to th......more

Meticulously researched, saturated with the Scriptures, written with grace & courage, this is a towering achievement, indeed, the definitive work on “Purity Culture”.......more

I'm pretty sure I was already on the same page as Welcher for all the issues she was talking about, so I don't know how much this book really changed my perspective. But it was nice to see someone else arguing for many of the conclusions I've slowly been coming to myself over the past 5-6 years, and......more