Erica’s Reviews > #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing > Status Update

“I don’t like it when Jesus is used like a dead relative to justify whatever the speaker was going to do anyway” (168).

“Our talents, our desires, our hopes and dreams, and what we need to be happy are as unique as our fingerprints” (161).

“The preservation of the institution of a relationship cannot be prioritized over the actual people that make it” (129).

“because existence is not a matter of opinion” (115).

On shame - “If you teach someone to say no… far safer to get them to say nothing at all” (63).