Joshua Harris’s wife finds her voice
Is she the new pastor in the family?
He was the newsworthy one — the longtime star of Evangelical Christianity, a spokesman of the “purity culture,” and a megachurch pastor.
Then Joshua Harris, the bestselling author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, became as famous for the child-abuse scandal, then for his divorce, and for leaving Christianity via Instagram. But his wife, I’d noticed, a singer. She’d released an album in 2018. It told the story of the divorce.
“Try and understand but could you let me go
It’s just that I need something a little more free”
Josh was always the one telling their story.
Evangelicals followed it along, book by book, speech by speech. They’d met her in 1997, shortly before I Kissed Dating Goodbye was published.
They began ‘courting’. They seemed the very image of the ideas he had advanced — that dating was bad, that God will lead you to your spouse.
He writes in Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship:
“I caught my first glimpse of her on the Sunday she got up in church and shared the story of how she’d become a Christian. Two and a half…
