Joshua Harris, purity culture and the church: Jessica van der Wyngaard and Sean McDowell

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🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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20 years ago Joshua Harris was the poster boy of the evangelical ‘purity movement’ having authored the bestselling book ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’. Today, Harris regrets writing the book, and has also recently changed his mind about Christianity. Justin is joined by Jessica van der Wyngaard, director of the documentary film ‘I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye’, and Christian apologist Sean McDowell, to discuss purity culture, singleness and the Joshua Harris story.For the documentary www.isurvivedikdg.comFor Sean McDowell www.seanmcdowell.org For Unbelievable? Live in LA on 11 & 12 Oct: www.unbelievable.live Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Unbelievable-the-BookFor more faith debates visit www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/UnbelievableJoin the conversation: Facebook and TwitterGet the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0	Good afternoon and welcome long to the show. It's unbelievable, with me Justin Briley broadcasting
0:12.2	here on Premiere Christian Radio every Saturday afternoon in the UK and around the world via
0:17.2	our podcast. You can find out more about the show, all of the various resources, live events
0:21.8	and more on offer at the website premierChristianradio.com, forward slash unbelievable, very much looking
0:27.9	forward to the guest joining me on today's show. As we talk about evangelical purity culture,
0:33.3	before we get to that, just a reminder that we've got some exciting stuff coming up in the
0:37.6	unbelievable schedule. Not that long ago, we had unbelievable conference in London. We had
0:42.6	some highlights on last week's show of that. You can get hold of the DVD and download of that
0:47.4	from the website. But we're coming to the USA, California, the West Coast will be live
0:52.7	in LA or well, Orange County really, as I've been reminded by many people on social media,
0:58.0	since we created this. But unbelievable live in LA is what we're calling it anyway. And it's
1:03.2	going to be a Friday and Saturday night, the 11th and 12th of October, when I'll be joined by Professor
1:07.9	John Lennox and Dave Rubin for a fascinating big conversation. And then we've got a whole day
1:12.6	conference on the Saturday. It's a Calvary Chapel costumessor going to be some fantastic guest joining
1:17.6	us on the Saturday. Go and look at all of the speakers. We'll be announcing the topics as well
1:23.1	for the conference very shortly. But all the info and ticketing information is there if you'd like
1:27.9	to come along and join us for unbelievable live in LA. The website is unbelievable dot live. I haven't
1:35.7	had much chance to bring your feedback to recent editions of the program over the last month or so.
1:40.0	So I'm going to make sure to do that at the end of today's program. Listen out for that. But before
1:45.2	we get into today's program, if you're listening by radio, especially please do be aware that today's
1:50.4	show contains adult themes on sexuality and relationship. So if you have younger ears within
1:56.0	earshot, you may want to exercise discretion or catch the podcast at another time.
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