The “Purity” Hoax

Elisabeth Elliot was the Evangelical sex guru because of a love story. Did it happen?

If you were Evangelical in the 1980s and 1990s, you knew about Elisabeth Elliot. She was the religion’s central teacher on sex. What were her qualifications?

She was the widow of Jim Elliot, of course. He was the missionary killed in Ecuador in 1956. She’d written his story in Through Gates of Splendor (1957), and a biography…