Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber wants to become Lord of the Purity Rings. The Denver-based pastor and author issued a mass call ...

I don’t recall when the idea that I had to wear a purity ring in high school first came to me, but between graduating from a fundamentalist Baptist elementary school, going to mass on Sundays, and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Millennial evangelicals are speaking out about the heightened emphasis on sexual purity that characterized their upbringing in that subculture. Joshua Harris, a former pastor who ...

AKRON, Ohio - Abby Wilson wears a sterling silver ring shaped like a flower on her right hand. It's an outward symbol that tells others the 15-year-old is saving herself for marriage. "I have many ...

Christianity and sexuality rarely make easy partners. For many of us, we grow up with the constant message that we must be pure not just of body but mind. That God can hear our lustful thoughts. That ...

A devastating yearlong investigation into the executive committee of the largest conservative evangelical denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, has documented widespread claims of ...