Evangelical Writer Kisses An Old Idea Goodbye
Joshua Harris wrote I Killed Dating Goodbye when he was 21 years old. It became the bible of the evangelical purity movement, which promotes putting off sex until marriage. His ideas have changed.
Lauren and Zack Blair are kind of the textbook evangelical Christian couple. They met a Christian college, fell in love, and dated for more than four years — without having sex — before they got married.
Lauren Blair said she grew up with clearly defined expectations about love and dating.
"My mom would talk to me about waiting until marriage to have sex, and she would always tell me, pretty much everyday, 'Lauren, you're worth more than a million bucks. Like, you're so valuable,'" she said.
Blair also read which was published in 1997 and became a central text of the evangelical
