Purity Club Dropout:The Joy of Being a Heretic

We were taught that being ‘right’ was the ticket to heaven. But I’m starting to realize that God isn’t a professor grading a theology exam.

The Architecture of the “Purity Club”

Nice girls don’t do that! Nice girls don’t argue, talk that way, dress like that, or act that way. At least, that’s what I was taught growing up in an evangelical church. My church loudly claimed to love like God does, while subjecting us to an awful lot of spoken and unspoken rules. As a pastor’s kid, this was even …