What if you just can't find a healthy church? Or what if you realize the church you're in is toxic? One of our big findings in our research for our new book She Deserves Better is that church attendance as a whole is good for girls. It leads to better self-esteem,...
Sheila Wray Gregoire
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Pink and Blue Bibles: Does Everything Need To Be Gendered?
Do women and men really need different Bibles and Bible studies? Last week on the Bare Marriage podcast, the wonderful Aimee Byrd joined us and told about her experience in a conservative complementarian church trying to learn more about Scripture and theology. That...
What Is Purity Culture? 10 Essential Ingredients
What exactly does "purity culture" refer to? Our recent book She Deserves Better spends about half of its pages addressing many aspects of purity culture, that was so common in youth groups between 1995-2015, and shows how it deviated from the gospel and from what we...
On Steven Crowder, Love & Respect, and Abuse
Last week, a video of Steven Crowder berating his wife Hilary went viral. Hilary was eight months pregnant with twins at the time, and video showed her trying to de-escalate while Steven Crowder yelled at her, swore at her, threatened her ("Watch it!"), and accused...
PODCAST: Pink and blue Faith: Plus We Take a Submission Quiz!
It's our podcast with Aimee Byrd--plus something super fun! I've been looking forward to this podcast for a long time. First, I just love Aimee Byrd, and while we talk a lot online, I haven't had the opportunity to have her on my podcast yet. So this was a treat. And...
A List of My Podcast Interviews for She Deserves Better
I've been doing so many interviews for our new book She Deserves Better! I wanted a place where I can put the links to those podcasts, because so many of you have been asking for a list. When I do an interview on ANOTHER podcast, I tend to summarize the book quite...