Dannah Gresh

Dannah Gresh
Occupation Author
Public speaker
Language English
Nationality American
Citizenship United States
Genre Christian literature
Subject Chastity
Modesty
Parenting
Premarital sex
Sexual abstinence

Dannah Gresh (born 1967) is a Christian author and public speaker.[1] She lives in State College, Pennsylvania, United States and has a son and two daughters.[2] When she was 15, she engaged in sexual activity with her boyfriend.[3] In 1996, she founded Pure Freedom, an organization that teaches young girls about chastity.[4] She also leads an organization that provides abstinence-only sex education in Zambia.[5] She wrote the book And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual Purity, which was published in 1999.[6] She cowrote the book Lies Young Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free with Nancy Leigh DeMoss.[7] Gresh has also written about how to parent teenagers.[8] In 2013, she led the Secret Keeper Girl Crazy Hair Tour, a series of Christian events for mothers and their tween daughters which featured 1 Girl Nation concerts and talks about modesty.[9] In the book Satan's Playbook: Identifying and Defending Against Satan's Temptations, Jason B. Watson commends Gresh on her teachings about modesty, particularly as outlined in her book Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Katelyn Beaty (August 20, 2013). "Toward a New Understanding of Modesty". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
  2. ↑ Carla Hinton (May 29, 2010). "Miley Cyrus' new video troubling to some moms". The Oklahoman. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Rosa Salter Rodriguez (April 5, 2008). "Youth gathering advocates sexual purity". The Journal Gazette. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
  4. ↑ Gardner, Christine J. (2011). Making Chastity Sexy: The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 9. ISBN 0520267273.
  5. ↑ Ann Byle (November 21, 2009). "Author of 'And the Bride Wore White' speaks about sexual purity to Cornerstone University students". The Grand Rapids Press. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
  6. ↑ Jessica Warner (2010). All or Nothing: A Short History of Abstinence in America. Random House. p. 166. ISBN 0771088566.
  7. ↑ Haley Hoover (January 15, 2012). "Book Review: Lies Young Women Believe by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and Dannah Gresh". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Classes on parenting teens attract attention". The Arizona Republic. August 27, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Events tailored for women fill September". The Blade. August 31, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
  10. ↑ Jason B. Watson (2011). Satan's Playbook: Identifying and Defending Against Satan's Temptations. CrossBooks Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 1462701094.
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