(RNS) — Growing up Southern Baptist in West Virginia in the 1990s and early 2000s, Anna Rollins heard one message clearly: Your body is a liability. Like many evangelical Christian women raised at a ...
A recent study published in The Journal of Sex Research suggests that exposure to strict religious sexual teachings can ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
When empathy became toxic and cruelty became strength for Christian women. Christian womanhood has changed—and not in the ways we could have expected. In this episode, Amanda Henderson talks with the ...
My life story is interlaced with religion. I grew up in the church. My late grandmother was a deaconess. My mother sang in the church choir. My brother is currently a pastor. I also grew up in the ...
You can see it in YouTube video essays, TikTok comments and social media trends. Purity culture is back. Waves of tradwife influencers like Nara Smith and Ballerina Farm, rising numbers of religious ...