by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 9, 2023 | Resolving Conflict
What is it that actually kills a marriage? In the Christian world, “lack of commitment” is often named as the culprit that brings a marriage to an end. I don’t agree. Even if you didn’t have commitment, if the marriage was great, why would anyone leave?Sure, every...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 6, 2023 | Pornography, Theology of Marriage and Sex
Christian leaders should not be trying to convince women to send nude photos. This doesn’t seem like it should even have to be said, but earlier this week I put up a Fixed It for You of Gary Thomas’ and Debra Fileta’s book Married Sex, which had this...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 5, 2023 | Podcasts, Theology of Marriage and Sex
It’s a new year of podcasts–and Lucy Maud Montgomery joins us for the first one! In her book The Making of Biblical Womanhood, Beth Allison Barr makes the case that the idea that God created the genders with different roles, where men are to lead and women...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 4, 2023 | Bare Marriage
2022 has been a crazy year at Bare Marriage! We ended 2021–on December 31 no less–hitting 1,000,000 downloads of the podcast overall. So after three years, we got to 1,000,000 downloads, with 500,000 of them being in 2021. Well, in 2022 we reached 900,000...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 3, 2023 | Bare Marriage
A new year has begun–so let’s look over what was biggest on the blog in 2022! At the start of every year I like to look back and see what resonated with people the most that I wrote last year. What posts had the highest traffic, the most comments? This was...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 22, 2022 | Podcasts
For the last two Decembers I’ve had podcasts where I talk about how I felt homeless about church. Obviously part of that was due to COVID, but even before COVID we were trying to figure out a different place to go. We had been really heavily involved in two...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 19, 2022 | Faith
Sheila here! Every Friday Rebecca writes an email that goes out to our 45,000 email subscribers. (Well, sometimes it doesn’t go out until Monday, but she does write a weekly round-up!). It tells you what the top posts of the week were, points you to the podcast,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 16, 2022 | Parenting Young Kids
We simply must talk more about how spanking affects children long term. The biggest group of people who still support spanking are evangelical Christians, yet the research about spanking being harmful for kids is overwhelming. I’m not going to rehash that today,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 15, 2022 | Podcasts
Is your church a spiritually safe place? Because I’ve done so much research on toxic teachings within evangelicalism that have hurt people’s marriage and sex lives (specifically in The Great Sex Rescue), I often get asked about toxic churches. If the...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 14, 2022 | Faith, Parenting Young Kids
Every now and then my grandkids give me a picture of God’s love for us. Or rather, their parents do. I don’t share about my grandkids very often, but last week, on a private Instagram page, Rebecca posted a series of pictures of my 3-year-old grandson Alex and his dad...
