# purity culture (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover purity culture.

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## [Mercy is the point](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/mercy-is-the-point)

_2026-08-22 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

Service is one way it happens.

## [Should the Marriage Be Prioritized Over the Kids?](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/should-the-marriage-be-prioritized)

_2026-08-21 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

Why does evangelicalism pit husbands against babies?

## [When injustice is the only chorus we seem to be able to sing](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/when-injustice-is-the-only-chorus)

_2026-08-20 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

Do we desensitize, re-sensitize, protect? What say you?

## [From Black & White to Color (Part 5):The First Time I Saw Color](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/from-black-and-white-to-color-part-751)

_2026-08-19 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

I used to believe healing would eventually lead me back to certainty.

## [How The Navigators Normalized Marital Rape](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/how-the-navigators-normalized-marital)

_2026-08-14 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

A look at a horrible passage in the discipleship book Every Man a Warrior

## [From Black & White to Color (Part 4): The People Who Loved My Performance](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/from-black-and-white-to-color-part-f82)

_2026-08-12 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

A Journey Through Deconstruction, Embodiment, and Finding the Divine Within

## [Why is that sky evangelist doing what she's doing?](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/why-is-that-sky-evangelist-doing)

_2026-08-12 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

Because the concept of hell is one hell of a motivator.

## [The Two Kinds of Marital Rape](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/the-two-kinds-of-marital-rape)

_2026-08-07 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

Why evangelical marriage teaching makes both more likely

## [5 Toxic Christian Teachings You Need to Reparent Yourself From](https://drcamden.substack.com/p/5-toxic-christian-teachings-you-need)

_2026-08-07 · Walking the Middle Path_

The 5 childhood messages you might still need to heal from.

## [Hopeful summer reads](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/hopeful-summer-reads)

_2026-08-06 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

Even if school starts up in another week or so.

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## [From Black & White to Color (Part 3): Learning to Sit Inside the Unanswered](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/from-black-and-white-to-color-part-18a)

_2026-08-05 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

A Journey Through Deconstruction, Embodiment, and Finding the Divine Within

## [Look for the bee tracks](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/look-for-the-bee-tracks)

_2026-08-04 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

Because you might just find yourself following sweetness along the way.

## [We're Being Accused of Measuring "Good Fruit" of Marriage Teaching Wrong](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/were-being-accused-of-measuring-good)

_2026-07-31 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

It's okay to expect advice to make you happier!

## [From Black & White to Color (Part 2): The Gray Season Almost Broke Me](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/from-black-and-white-to-color-part-ad9)

_2026-07-29 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

A Journey Through Deconstruction, Embodiment, and Finding the Divine Within

## [Why Do We Want Purity Culture Authors to Apologize?](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/why-do-we-want-purity-culture-authors)

_2026-07-24 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

And why does it hurt so much when they won't?

## [Patriarchy, purity culture, and Christian nationalism, you say? (Part III)](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/patriarchy-purity-culture-and-christian-9c3)

_2026-07-23 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

Plus, see you in Salem, Oregon on Sunday!

## [From Black & White to Color (Part 1): When Certainty Became a Cage](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/from-black-and-white-to-color-part)

_2026-07-22 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

A Journey Through Deconstruction, Embodiment, and Finding the Divine Within

## [Misogyny in the bedroom, with Sheila Wray Gregoire and Dorothy Greco](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/misogyny-in-the-bedroom-with-sheila)

_2026-07-21 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

A recording from Sheila Wray Gregoire and Dorothy Littell Greco's live video

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207989103/0ffa36f2eb067c72dc9f27177fcac640.mp3)

## [The Harm of Religious Authoritarian Parenting](https://drcamden.substack.com/p/the-harm-of-religious-authoritarian)

_2026-07-17 · Camden Morgante · Walking the Middle Path_

The long-term effects of Dobson parenting

## [Patriarchy, purity culture, and Christian nationalism, you say? (Part II)](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/patriarchy-purity-culture-and-christian-bf9)

_2026-07-16 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

Connecting it all together, with another excerpt from Church Camp

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## [The Lie That Slows Healing: “Just Stay Positive”](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/the-lie-that-slows-healing-just-stay)

_2026-07-15 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

Why toxic positivity prevents emotional processing and nervous system recovery.

## [Weighing in on the viral Doug Wilson interview](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/weighing-in-on-the-viral-doug-wilson)

_2026-07-14 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

A little behind-the-scenes of a Huff Post interview last week

## [Patriarchy, purity culture, and Christian nationalism, you say? (Part I)](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/patriarchy-purity-culture-and-christian)

_2026-07-09 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

How it all connects together, with an excerpt from CC

## [Why Healing From Religious Trauma Feels Lonely](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/why-healing-feels-lonely)

_2026-07-08 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

What happens when personal growth changes the roles you once held in relationships.

## [What Purity Culture and Dobson Parenting Have in Common](https://drcamden.substack.com/p/what-purity-culture-and-dobson-parenting)

_2026-07-03 · Camden Morgante · Walking the Middle Path_

When fundamentalism and false promises are the common link.

## [Finding out what you like and don't like in dating, and, as it goes, in books](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/finding-out-what-you-like-and-dont)

_2026-07-01 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

But also, an excerpt from K.J. Ramsey's The Place Between Our Pains, because LIKE.

## [The Litmus Test](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/the-litmus-test)

_2026-07-01 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

One could say I never really had a choice...

## [Do Women Want their Husbands to Be Their "Spiritual Leader"?](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/do-women-want-their-husbands-to-be)

_2026-06-26 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

What if women merely want a man who takes initiative?

## [12 things I recently learned about St. Hildegard of Bingen](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/12-things-i-recently-learned-about)

_2026-06-25 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

Because, she's my girl. But first, a little story.

## [Good Girl Gone...Free (Part 6): The Somatic Side](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/good-girl-gonefree-part-6the-somatic)

_2026-06-24 · Rooted with Redd_

How the Body Releases What Purity Culture Taught You to Hold

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## [Too Many "Christians" Are Gleeful about Women's Voices Being Silenced](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/too-many-christians-are-gleeful-about)

_2026-06-19 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

That attitude speaks volumes

## [What Do You Mean by Gentle Parenting?](https://drcamden.substack.com/p/what-do-you-mean-by-gentle-parenting)

_2026-06-19 · Camden Morgante · Walking the Middle Path_

Making the shift from control-based to connection-based parenting

## [Might you relish in the percentages that make up your summers](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/might-you-relish-in-the-percentages)

_2026-06-18 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

Because how are any of us supposed to get anything done when the marigolds look like this and the dahlias look like this?

## [Good Girl Gone...Free (Part 5): The Neuroscience of Coming Home](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/good-girl-gonefree-part-5-the-neuroscience)

_2026-06-17 · Rooted with Redd_

Rebuilding Trust With Your Body After Purity Culture

## [Why I'm not arguing for the SBC to accept me already](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/why-im-not-arguing-for-the-sbc-to)

_2026-06-12 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

Over it.

## [A Letter to SBC Women](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/a-letter-to-sbc-women)

_2026-06-12 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

This is a time to go

## [Good Girl Gone...Free (Part 4): When Shame Echoes](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/good-girl-gonefree-part-4-when-shame)

_2026-06-10 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

Rebuilding Trust With Your Body After Purity Culture

## [The Meredith March Against Fear, 60 years later](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/the-meredith-march-against-fear-60)

_2026-06-09 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

including an excerpt from my first book!

## [When People Who Want to Defend Male Hierarchy Try to Disparage Our Research](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/when-people-who-want-to-defend-male)

_2026-06-05 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

It's so hard to fight back against anti-intellectualism!

## [Deconstructing Black and White Thinking](https://drcamden.substack.com/p/deconstructing-black-and-white-thinking)

_2026-06-05 · Camden Morgante · Walking the Middle Path_

Why binary thinking is at the root of fundamentalism

## [Good Girl Gone...Free (Part 3): Coming Home](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/good-girl-gonefree-part-3)

_2026-06-03 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

A Practice in Sensual Reclamation (No Sexual Disclosure Required)

## [The connection between grief and wonder](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/the-connection-between-grief-and)

_2026-06-01 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

A couple of books, a missive from the Pope, and my own musings too

## [Why Complementarianism Depends on Keeping Women in a Bubble](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/why-complementarianism-depends-on)

_2026-05-29 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

Because when women see what Christian equality looks like, they won't be subjected again

## [10 Best Marriage Advice for 10 Years of Marriage](https://drcamden.substack.com/p/10-best-marriage-advice-for-10-years)

_2026-05-28 · Camden Morgante · Walking the Middle Path_

Looking back after 10 years of marriage and 15+ years as a marriage therapist

## [Good Girl Gone...Free (Part 2): Coming Home to Your Body](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/good-girl-gonefree-part-2-coming)

_2026-05-27 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

The Sacred Work of Erotic Self-Knowledge

## [Should Church Libraries Be Vetting their Books and Getting Rid of Toxic Ones?](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/should-church-libraries-be-vetting)

_2026-05-22 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

Libraries offer great responsibility--but great opportunity for change!

## [Good Girl Gone… Free (Part 1)](https://achearedd.substack.com/p/good-girl-gone-free-part-1)

_2026-05-20 · Achea Redd · Rooted with Redd_

A story about shedding purity culture, reclaiming pleasure, and becoming fully alive without needing to confess the details to earn your liberation.

## [Next right things](https://carameredith.substack.com/p/next-right-things)

_2026-05-20 · Rev. Cara Meredith · Cara Meredith_

On being ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church

## [Live with Dr. Kelly Edmiston](https://drcamden.substack.com/p/live-with-dr-kelly-edmiston)

_2026-05-15 · Camden Morgante · Walking the Middle Path_

Kelly Edmiston and "Shame-Free Sex Talks"

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197903635/575f9dbbfdae183ba79c671823e9d14d.mp3)

## [Are Women Sinning If They Expect Things of Their Husbands?](https://baremarriage.substack.com/p/are-women-sinning-if-they-expect)

_2026-05-15 · Sheila Wray Gregoire · Sheila Wray Gregoire_

Focus on the Family thinks so!