by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 24, 2024 | Parenting Teens, Podcasts
What are the potential pitfalls of the sex talk with your kids? Having the sex talk with your kids can be so stressful! It feels awkward. What do you say? But one of the things we also know here at Bare Marriage, after surveying tens of thousands of people over the...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 17, 2024 | Podcasts
We’re not going to end sexual abuse in the church until we confront its causes. It’s not just a matter of getting rid of abusers (they have a habit of popping up again in new churches anyway!). It’s about figuring out the underlying contributing...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 10, 2024 | Podcasts
What if purity culture really did a number on you? We talk a lot here at Bare Marriage about how harmful much of the purity culture rhetoric was: It increased women’s chances of marrying an abuser; increased the chances she’d be sexually harassed or...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 3, 2024 | Podcasts, Research
What happens when churches make up a ridiculous stat–and spread it? Ever heard the stat that when fathers come to Christ first, in 93% of families the wife and kids follow, but when wives come to Christ first, it’s only 17%? It’s been quoted by J.D....
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 26, 2024 | Parenting Teens, Parenting Young Kids, Podcasts
Christian parenting advice is full of toxic teachings we need to ditch! It’s not just marriage and sex where a lot of Christian teachings have gone wrong. It’s also with parenting. Instead of teaching parents to connect with their kids and discipline in a...
