Volume 42 Number 1, 2026

Editor’s Introduction

Sailaja Krishnamurti, Michal Raucher

How Can I Do This Work Well? Toward a Womanist-Accomplice Hermeneutic

Joshua Turpin

Decolonizing the “New Being”: Rereading Tillich for the Marginalized Subject via Transformative Justice

Hannah Bowman

The Parable of the Good Samaritan Woman

K J Wenell

In a Different Voice: What The Mother Says

Sally Mansfield Abbott

Roundtable: Purity Culture Beyond Abstinence Only

Lauren D. Sawyer

Liturgies of Whiteness: Purity, Power, and the Making of American Femininity

Mihe Kim-Kort

Sexy and Pure

Katie Heatherly

What About the Men?: Purity Culture’s Construction of (Toxic) Masculinity

Victoria Houser

“Clean Eating” in a Polluted World:Theologies of Purity and Toxicity in the MAHA Movement

Flora X Tang

Beyond America: Transnationalizing Purity Culture Logics

Jennifer McGrath

The Judges Generation: Black Church Sexual Politics in the Age of Digital Purity Culture

Indhira M Udofia