About the Author
Scott's first novel, born from his own journey of processing religious trauma nearly two decades after walking away from the church. A fictional exploration of the same themes this site addresses — the damage done, and the harder work of finding something more honest on the other side.
View on Amazon →Published on Zenodo and distributed through SSRN's academic preprint network. A documented examination of how five major AI platforms independently resolved every ambiguity in purity culture's core proof-texts in favor of the institutional reading — silently, without acknowledging the ambiguity existed. When prompted using steelman prompting, every platform produced alternative readings that did not require marriage as a precondition — readings that were more consistent with the original language and, by the platforms' own analysis, more compelling than the defaults they had initially offered.
Read on Zenodo →A recorded debate from 2009, when this argument was considerably less welcome than it is today. The content includes discussion of 1 Corinthians 7:3–4 and coercion within marriage — viewer discretion advised. Pastor Cook ultimately chose not to publish the episode without disclosing why.
Watch the debate →