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The Case for (a New) Purity Culture

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Samuel D. James
Feb 16, 2026
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I’m very honored to share that I have an essay in this month’s issue of First Things magazine. It’s titled A New Purity Culture.

This essay is my attempt to do three things.

First, I want to share some of my own experience growing up in the kind of conservative evangelicalism that’s been at the center of many fraught conversations about parenting, minis…

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