Southern baptists founded True Love Waits, a group that promotes abstinence till marriage, which it emphasized through strict rules about male-female interactions, and other denominations soon took up the cause. Twenty years ago, a 21-year-old Harris became a leading voice in the Evangelical purity movement, a movement in the 1990s and early 2000s that emphasized sexual purity in response to the excesses of the Sexual Revolution and the 1980s. Harris has made a documentary titled “I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” in reference to his book on dating “I Kissed Dating Goodbye.” In the film, produced and directed by fellow graduate student Jessica Van Der Wyngaard, Harris reevaluates his beliefs. But this time, his message departs from his conservative teaching on sexuality and dating. Writer and one-time Pastor Joshua Harris is once more trying to reach American Evangelicals through media. Joshua Harris’ widely-read book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” received backlash from many who say his advice ruined their lives.
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