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Christianity, Church, Community, Leaving Christianity, Sex, Sexuality & Gender

I want an apology for how the Church taught me about purity

Ruby Claire | July 2, 2022

Youth group was an incredibly gendered time in the mid 2000s. It was the age of Joshua Harris’ I Kissed Dating Goodbye, and the idolisation of friends who saved their first kiss for their wedding day. It was also the age of gender-segregated talks on purity.

Christianity, Church, Community, Leaving Christianity

Four Years Ago, I Left the Church

Ruby Claire | January 5, 2021

On the 13th of April, 2017, I published a blog post titled ‘Losing My Religion and Leaving the Church Behind’. I needed to tell my community that after 22 years of shining the light for Christ, I was no longer convinced that Jesus died and rose again for the sins of the world. Leaving the church would be a shock to many. I hadn’t ‘gone off the rails’, I hadn’t disappeared from services I frequented. There were no whispers of…

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I want an apology for how the Church taught me about purity

Four Years Ago, I Left the Church

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