by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 2, 2024 | Faith, Parenting Teens, Parenting Young Kids
With thanks to Zonderkidz for sponsoring this post. When my girls were small, one of their biggest pet peeves with church was that they always did the same Bible stories. Whenever they went to summer camp, it would inevitably be: Daniel and the Lions’ Den David and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 22, 2024 | Faith
Sexism on the mission field can do so much damage. In so many parts of the world, patriarchy is already baked in. Jesus should be rescuing us from that! But what happens when missionaries come in and teach about Jesus–but also bring patriarchy? Then instead of...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 29, 2024 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
Do you think the Bible teaches people to accept bad behavior? It can certainly seem that way! And one of the passages that is most often used to support that is the idea that we should “turn the other cheek.” I remember being in a Bible study at IVCF in university...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 17, 2024 | Abuse, Theology of Marriage and Sex
Some awfully bizarre things happened at the recent Strong Men’s Conference–and Jezebel made an appearance. I don’t even know where to begin, and I don’t want to talk about the conference itself because so many have already done a good job. To sum up, there was one of...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 8, 2023 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
The ESV is a sexist Bible translation. And they even said that when they were translating it! It was commissioned in order to counteract the TNIV translation, which tried to be gender neutral in all places where the Greek was gender neutral, replacing words like...
