Ep 923 | What Purity Culture Got Wrong | Guest: Dr. Lina AbuJamra
December 14, 2023
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Ep 923 | What Purity Culture Got Wrong | Guest: Dr. Lina AbuJamra
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Ep 923 | What Purity Culture Got Wrong | Guest: Dr. Lina AbuJamra
Summary
Today we're joined by pediatric ER doctor and founder of Living with Power Ministries Dr. Lina AbuJamra to discuss her book, "Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This: A Christian Doctor's Thoughts on Sex, Shame, and Other Troublesome Issues." We start off with Lina's story of growing up in Lebanon, going to medical school, and her faith journey. She shares how her upbringing shaped her perspective on dating and how a relationship she had placed hope in didn't work out, leading her to feel betrayed by God. We discuss how she fell into the prosperity gospel of sex and marriage and how God redeemed this. Then, did purity culture fail the church? And what does it mean to walk in sexual purity and holiness, whether you're single, married, or engaged? We talk about the shame and stigma or purity and virginity even within the evangelical world and explain why it's more important than ever in our hypersexualized culture to understand that Jesus is worth facing these issues straight on.
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Timecodes:
(02:13) Growing up in Lebanon & moving to the U.S.
(15:23) Deconstruction / prosperity gospel
(18:59) Purity culture
(26:15) 'Old Testament God' & laws
(29:25) 'Worse' sexual sins
(38:00) Inerrancy of scripture
(41:41) Christian leaders' sexual failures / Gen X leaders
(56:20) Same sex-attraction
(01:03:00) Response to sexual sin
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