by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 15, 2024 | Abuse, Podcasts
What if evangelical marriage advice actually mimics coercive control? A few months ago I was emailed by Bethany Jantzi when I started talking about The Excellent Wife online. She had just done her dissertation on how The Excellent Wife actually has the same advice and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 8, 2024 | Abuse, Podcasts
There are few books as harmful to women as The Excellent Wife by Martha Peace The Excellent Wife by Martha Peace sells like hotcakes in biblical counseling/ fundamentalist/ homeschooling circles, and even though it seems like a “fringe” book, it’s affecting tens of...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 1, 2024 | Abuse, Podcasts
What happens to your marriage when you get dragged into fundamentalism? Tia Levings went to a flagship SBC church. She wasn’t supposed to get sucked into fundamentalism. But Tia ended up being stuck in an abusive marriage, trying to fix things by following advice from...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 25, 2024 | Podcasts
What if the way we talk about modesty makes it impossible to talk about vanity? When we spend so much time telling girls what they should look like and how they should dress, can we even address vanity? Or when we spend so much time praising women for being...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 18, 2024 | Podcasts
Is evangelicalism filled with propaganda? I’m not saying that Jesus is about propaganda, but rather that evangelicalism, in its current cultural form, is filled with people using the Bible to prop themselves up and keep themselves in power. And...
