by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 3, 2022 | Libido
If you think 1 Corinthians 7:3-5 is a command for women to have sex on demand with their husbands, you’ve lost the plot. And not just that, but you have no business leading an SBC (Southern Baptist Convention) seminary where future SBC pastors are trained. But...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 2, 2022 | Podcasts
Have we made sex–and marriage–into a “Yes Space” for men? And if so, how does this affect libido? It’s been a while since Rebecca and I recorded a podcast where we just talked about what we wanted to talk about, rather than having...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 1, 2022 | Libido
What if male Christian authors are digging the very hole they’re trying to climb out of–and killing women’s libido? Welcome to June, everybody! And in June, our focus is going to be on libido, asking the question: “What’s killing...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 31, 2022 | Connecting, Family, Marriage
If you know you have an unhealthy attachment style, how can you grow and change? It’s the last day in May, and so I want to wrap up our posts about attachment styles. I’m so glad so many of you have found this concept helpful; it’s really changed how...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 27, 2022 | Abuse
This was one of those weeks that leaves everyone gasping for air and searching for hope. It started off with two things dropping on Monday: The Southern Baptist Convention report on sexual abuse, which was devastating, and the viral video from a church in Indiana...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 26, 2022 | Podcasts, Pornography
Can we have a nuanced discussion about porn and the likelihood of recovery? One of our goals for what we do is to help people have “informed consent”–in other words, before they make a decision, they need to know all the facts. We can’t be...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 24, 2022 | Abuse
Callous and smug. That’s the impression I got about those high up in the Southern Baptist Convention after reading the report that dropped on the weekend about the sexual abuse scandal in the denomination, and how it has been ignored, covered up, and minimized,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 23, 2022 | Parenting Young Kids
It’s easy to use the “we’re just following the Bible!” trumpcard when debating something, and spanking proves an excellent example of how this can go awry. We’ve been talking about spanking as a method of discipline for a few weeks now,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 20, 2022 | Parenting Young Kids
I never spanked my kids. Well, there’s a funny story about Katie, but I’ll leave that for another time. What I did do, though, was write a column in my weekly paper about twenty years ago bemoaning the fact that the Children’s Aid Society was taking...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 19, 2022 | Podcasts
How do our attachment styles–or love styles–affect our marriage? This month on the blog we’re talking all about attachment styles. So often we think that our marriage problems are about communication, or habits, or normal conflicts. But what if...
