The pudcast returns with consideration of confessional Protestant piety in relation to the purity culture that ran in evangelical circles during the 1990s and 2000s. The co-hosts, Anglican Miles Smith, Lutheran Korey Maas, and Presbyterian D. G. Hart discuss in particular two recent defenses of an evangelical subculture that developed in reaction to a society that pastors and parents thought was hostile to serious Christian devotion. Trevin Wax's "We Were Jesus Freaks" and Samuel D. James' "The New Purity Culture" not only defend a form of separation from the cultural mainstream (without becoming Amish), but document a form of piety that ran strong in certain sectors of evangelicalism and may or may not dovetail with Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Anglican forms of devotion.
