Shannon Harris Wasn't Content with Being a Purity Culture Stagehand
Her new memoir brings her voice into the story of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye." It also brings in an entirely different gospel.
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Her new memoir brings her voice into the story of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye." It also brings in an entirely different gospel.
The greatest gift my parents passed on was a lived-out faith. I want to do the same for my daughter.
We don’t need a better guidebook or a different set of rules. We need to change the way we approach the conversation.
16.9 The first year of our marriage, I found a full pill case pushed behind some bottles of shampoo under the bathroom sink. They belonged to my husband’s first wife, Danielle, from years earlier, before her fight with cancer ended in death. My husband, Evan, apologized—not because he had done anything wrong but because he could not prevent these reminders of grief from occasionally falling out of closets and drawers. This is where they had lived together. Where she baked, laughed, and lost her hair. Since then we have moved into a house of our own, one with high ceilings, a creaky old st...