Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

by Linda Kay Klein

On one side of the gap lies our indoctrinated brains; on the other side lies our searching spirits. And the rest of us is somewhere in the middle—sometimes stretched, other times bouncing from one gravitational pull to the other and back again, getting close to living in a way that aligns with our spirits only to have our bodies jerk us back or punish us in ways that make us feel we haven’t gotten very far after all.