Welcome to the podcast Think Vivically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Sean McDowell, Professor of Apology at Taub School Theology

Biola University.

For our bonus episode today we're going to revisit a conversation we've had a couple times on this

podcast which is called purity culture, which is basically an umbrella term referred to the way the church has taught

purity to young people over the past 20, 25 years, some ways well.

And some ways we look back and maybe think, you know you know we can do better

theological with this generation my guest her name is Rachel Joy

welcher and she wrote a book called Talking Back to purity culture now I've read

dozens of books and studies on purity culture and

this is the one volume I would recommend for really anybody who says okay what

mistakes have we made in the past how can can we do better? And what does it mean to

effectively teach sexual purity to young people today? This is a really

really interesting book and I think you're going to enjoy this conversation

which was first on my YouTube channel,

which again is in partnership with the Apologetics Program.

But as usual, if you enjoy, we hope you'll consider sharing it with a friend. So enjoy this interview with Rachel Joy Welcher talking back to purity culture.

What did the church get right about sexual purity and what did it get wrong? These are super important questions

that we're going to talk about today and I'm here with a guest, a new friend of mine, her name is Rachel Joy

Welcher and she's written a book called Talking Back to Periodi Culture.

And what I love about this is she reflects back on the sexual message that was given

in the church for a long time saying here's some things we did well but here's some things we can

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