by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 19, 2016 | Faith, Sex
Does the purity culture movement do more harm than good? Last week I wrote a three part series on vaginismus, when you experience pain during intercourse. And in that series we ended up discussing the purity culture in modern Christianity, and its potentially harmful...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 30, 2026 | Connecting, Podcasts, Theology of Marriage and Sex
How do you actually measure the “good fruit” of marriage teaching? Over the last little while, we’ve been criticized for saying that it’s good fruit if marriages are happy, while ignoring the more important things like whether people are...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 11, 2025 | Podcasts
Let’s take on some common horrid evangelical talking points! I thought, as we’re getting to the end of the year, that Keith and I could spend a podcast just reacting to some of the common things we hear pastors say from the pulpit, or influencers say...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 4, 2024 | Podcasts
What’s it like when your family starts out normal, but grows fundamentalist? Today on the podcast we’re interviewing Cait West, the author of just a beautiful memoir, Rift. She talks about what it’s like to grow up in a Christian patriarchal family,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 28, 2024 | Podcasts, Preparing for Marriage
Is the honeymoon all about the guy FINALLY getting sex? Nope. But too often evangelicals talk like this–and it has grave consequences. Licensed counselor Jay Stringer sent me a video a few weeks ago that he was really concerned about. SBC Megachurch pastor Josh...
