Can Josh Harris Kiss His Book Goodbye?

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🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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We’ve hit the 20-year anniversary of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, a book that’s provoked a reaction through the decades for its take on young romantic relationships. Back in 2001, one author wrote for CT, “Joshua Harris hasn't made my life any easier. In fact, thanks to him, my future wife—wherever she is— may very well have given up the idea of ever dating.” This author wasn’t the only one questioning the book’s advice on dating, sex, and love—over the next two decades, a number of people influenced by the book began to push back. Today, Harris is a former megachurch pastor enrolled in seminary and is currently reconsidering some of the book’s arguments and perspectives. Harris has begun engaging his critics and is trying to raise money to film a documentary about the book’s negative feedback. “I’ve wanted to move on from this book for some time, but I’m trying to talk to people who are sharing stories with me about ways the book really hurt them and damaged them. It’s partly for my own sense of closure to come back and reevaluate it and even to admit ways that I have now changed in my thinking,” Harris said. Harris joined assistant editor Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen to discuss the consequences of ideas, the arguments in I Kissed Dating Goodbye that he still finds appealing, and whether he’d recommend the book today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.0	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
0:14.5	Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at Apologeticsky.com.
0:29.1	Thank you. Michael Del Rosario at Apologeticsguy.com. Hey, you're listening to Quick to Listen.
0:31.2	Each week we go be on hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major cultural event.
0:35.8	I'm Morgan Lee, and I'm an assistant editor here at Christianity
0:38.4	today and I am joined by Ted Olson. Hello Morgan. I'm editorial director at Christianity today.
0:45.3	And again, guest hosting, where usually Mark Galley, our editor-in-chief, is sitting in this chair.
0:50.2	But I'm here instead. It's great to have you here, especially since you spent so much of the year in another country.
0:56.6	That's right. That's right. I missed being around here.
0:59.3	You know, I will say that one of our colleagues recently got back from Nairobi where you were, and he said, that is not a city you should visit.
1:08.1	It is a city you should visit. It's awesome.
1:10.5	There's a national park in the middle of the city with animals everywhere.
1:13.3	That's what I told him.
1:14.2	I said, but what about that?
1:15.4	But I don't think, as you and I both know this coworker, that is his jam in the way it might be yours in mind.
1:20.8	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:21.5	He likes the more remote, the better. And Nairobi is definitely a very, it is the city where all the expats go in Africa.
1:31.3	All right. Who's our guest today? Our guest is Josh Harris, author and former pastor, now a seminary student at Regent College in Vancouver, Josh Harris, author of many books.
1:42.1	But the book we're going to talk about today is the book.
1:44.8	He is probably more than two decades on, still most famous for I Kissed Dating Goodbye.
1:52.0	Morgan, did you read I Kiss Dating Goodbye back in the day?
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