She was married to Joshua Harris, the famed author of anti-dating handbook I Kissed Dating Goodbye, which sold over a million copies after its publication in 1997 and, in advising chaste courtship ...

Millennials and older Gen Z-ers who grew up in Joshua Harris’s I Kissed Dating Goodbye era know the drill; they were told to sit patiently in the divine waiting room, abstain from everything ...

"I Kissed Dating Goodbye" author Joshua Harris recently shared an “updated” version of his apology addressing the impact of his work, apologizing specifically to the “LGBTQ+” community and ...

“I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” published when Harris was just 23, became the Christian cult classic that defined courtship practices. His second book, ...

You’ve heard about Joshua Harris, the pastor who in 1997 wrote an anti-dating book called “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” that became a mainstay of the purity culture movement.

In 2018, Josh Harris disavowed and apologized for the harm caused by “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” and a year later he announced his departure from Christianity and the end of their marriage.

Check your bookshelves for some of the most toxic rhetoric about purity culture and abstinence culture in America and exchange them for some of these healthier ones.

Check your bookshelves for some of the most toxic rhetoric about purity culture and abstinence culture in America and exchange them for some of these healthier ones.