by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 18, 2022 | Sex, Theology of Marriage and Sex
What if both purity culture and the hookup culture are teaching people to treat sex with dissociation and disconnection? Sheila here! Today I’m proud to turn the blog over to Sam Jolman, a licensed counselor in Colorado who is passionate about promoting a...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 17, 2022 | Bare Marriage, Faith, Theology of Marriage and Sex
Like you, I’m heartbroken by the Josh Duggar case, and by the continued support for him from his wife. I noticed something that I shared on social media yesterday, and I thought it was worth a super quick post because I’m curious what my commenters think...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 16, 2022 | Abuse
What happens when we stress forgiveness over authenticity and confession? I want to start this morning with the story that got me thinking in this direction, and then propose 7 guidelines for how we, as Christians, handle taking sides when abuse is made public....
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 13, 2022 | Men's Corner, Parenting Teens
A basic principle in the Old Testament is actually quite a simple one: People of God don’t sacrifice children. Read through the prophets, and you’ll hear the judgment against nations that sacrifice their kids to Molech, or make children “walk through...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 11, 2022 | Connecting, Preparing for Marriage, Research, Spiritual Intimacy
Our attachment style that we learn in childhood affects our “love styles” as adults. I’m a big fan of the book How We Love by Milan and Kay Yerkovich. It’s one of the few Christian marriage books that I can recommend wholeheartedly. How We...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 10, 2022 | Libido, Making Sex Feel Good
Just a super quick post today on why “equality” sometimes misses the boat when it comes to sexual pleasure. I use Tuesdays either to take a day off from writing the blog, or to share something super quick that’s on my mind and I just want to write it...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 9, 2022 | Parenting Teens, Parenting Young Kids, Research
When my daughter Rebecca was 19 months old, her baby brother died. He was only a month old. We learned when I was about 5 months pregnant about his heart condition, and that things would be very touch and go. We spent the last four months of the pregnancy petrified of...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 6, 2022 | Faith, Parenting Young Kids, Theology of Marriage and Sex
Yesterday on the podcast we looked at the metaanalysis about spanking, and talked about gentle parenting. That metaanalysis of 160,000 children found that spanking was either neutral or negative, but not positive. Like if you parent well in other areas, you can blunt...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 5, 2022 | Podcasts
Our passion is to get evidence-based advice about marriage, sex and parenting into the hands of Christians. But that means that we have to use science well! In the last of our three podcasts with Joanna where we talk stats, we tackle a few more ways that research is...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 4, 2022 | Series
This month we’re going to talk about attachment styles and why they matter! Attachment styles are the way that we relate to other people, and they’re based on what we learned when relating to our earliest caregivers. The field really took off in the 1950s...
