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A 29% drop in young women calling faith 'very important' isn't a cultural mystery. It's a ledger. Purity culture built a shame framework aimed disproportionately at girls, and the mental health costs landed on the women who absorbed it, not the institutions that sold it.
By Zara Mitchell · 3 min read
Purity culture's damage wasn't that it stopped millennials from having sex. It was that it made sex feel like a moral verdict. The shame architecture outlasted the belief system, and most institutions that built it haven't said a word.
By Lena Paige · 3 min read
Finland convicted a sitting MP for a pamphlet she wrote in 2004, and the ruling is a problem regardless of what you think about her theology. Hate speech law that cannot distinguish doctrinal argument from incitement is not protecting anyone. It is just expanding what the state gets to punish.
By Lena Paige · 3 min read
The Episcopal Church lost more than half its members since the 1960s. Ryan Burge says the trend is almost certainly irreversible. The reason isn't theology; it's that mainline churches stopped doing the institutional work that keeps people connected.
By Lena Paige · 3 min read