Does God Care What I Wear to Church?

Walk into almost any church on a Sunday morning in 2026 and you’ll see something the purity culture authors of the early 2000s never quite imagined: a front row filled with designer sneakers, luxury handbags and $400 jeans. Nobody’s showing too much skin. But they’re absolutely making sure you know what they paid for what they’re wearing. This is the modesty conversation we’re not having.Since at least the 1950s, conservative Christianity has had a lot to say about