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Kissing Purity Culture Goodbye

Abigail Rine Favale

Last week, twenty-one years after its initial publication, Joshua Harris officially denounced and discontinued publication of his bestselling book I Kissed Dating Goodbye, a volume that shaped the hearts,...

Evangelical Gnosticism

Abigail Rine Favale

I teach in a great books program at an Evangelical university. Almost all students in the program are born-and-bred Christians of the nondenominational variety. A number of them have been...

The Sex Education We Need

Abigail Rine Favale

Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions About Life and Sexualityby nancy pearceybaker books, 336 pages, $22.99 Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions About Life and Sexuality is Nancy Pearcey’s timely...

A Culture of Life in the Walking Dead

Abigail Rine Favale

Since its earliest seasons, AMC’s zombie apocalypse series The Walking Dead has depicted a God-widowed world. Although select characters here and there have gestured toward faith, the show as...

A Movement, Hijacked

Abigail Rine Favale

Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movementby sue ellen browderignatius, 232 pages, $22.95 Subverted recounts the untold history of how the feminist and pro-abortion movements...

School Shootings and the Book of Job

Abigail Rine Favale

Last Thursday morning, I was teaching a freshman honors seminar in Newberg, Oregon. We were discussing Genesis 32, that enigmatic passage where Jacob wrestles with God. Just south of...