by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 26, 2021 | Bare Marriage
Elisabeth Elliot’s book Passion and Purity is NOT a love story. These last few weeks I’ve been reading the big books marketed to young women in the evangelical world for research for our mother-daughter book, and one of those was Passion & Purity. I...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 26, 2021 | Parenting Teens
What happens when we tell girls that “boys will want to push your sexual boundaries”? We’re in the middle of our debunking series, where we look at things that are commonly taught in evangelical circles, and encourage the church to get it right!...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 6, 2018 | Parenting Teens
I didn’t grow up in the “I Kissed Dating GoodBye” culture, but my kids did. I made Rebecca read the book when she was 14 (sorry, Becca!). I told the girls no dating until they were at least 16, and I strongly discouraged it until later.Over the...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 20, 2026 | Abuse, Podcasts
The Emowered Wife is really, really bad. Like horrifically bad. It basically tells women to self-erase and self-censor in order to make husbands have as smooth a ride as possible so that there’s no reason for them to feel triggered, so that they’ll be nice...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 17, 2026 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
Is the aim of complementarianism to give men leadership over women? Most complementarians would eventually say yes, even if reluctantly. They would say that God calls men to headship over women, which means that men have to be willing to lead their wives–which...
