by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 20, 2026 | Abuse, Podcasts
The Emowered Wife is really, really bad. Like horrifically bad. It basically tells women to self-erase and self-censor in order to make husbands have as smooth a ride as possible so that there’s no reason for them to feel triggered, so that they’ll be nice...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 6, 2025 | Podcasts
Let’s look at fiction–something we’ve never done before! Here at Bare Marriage we’ve looked extensively at the nonfiction, self-help books about marriage and sex in evangelicalism, and how the messages in them actually lead to worse outcomes...
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...