# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joshua-harris
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:33:09.977Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joshua-harris"
name: "Joshua Harris"
slug: "joshua-harris"
description: "Joshua Eugene Harris is an American former Evangelical Christian pastor. Harris' 1997 book I Kissed Dating Goodbye, in which he laid out his ideas concerning a biblically based Christian approach to dating and relationships, helped shape purity culture for many Christian millennials. Harris was lead pastor of Covenant Life Church, the founding church of Sovereign Grace Ministries, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, from 2004 until 2015. In 2018, Harris disavowed I Kissed Dating Goodbye and discontinued its publication. The following year, Harris announced that he was separating from his wife, had \"undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus\" and was no longer a Christian. He now describes himself as a seeker: \"I pray to Jesus and visit church, but I engage with religion very differently than I did in the past.\""
tagline: "American writer, former pastor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joshua_Harris_cropped.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.93
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.710057333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/HarrisJosh"
    handle:    "HarrisJosh"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joshharris.com"
sources:
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    title: "約書亞·哈里斯 (作者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوشوا هاريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Harris"
    title: "Joshua Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Harris"
    title: "Joshua Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Harris_(author)"
    title: "Joshua Harris (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Harris"
    title: "Joshua Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Harris"
    title: "Joshua Harris"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump