Do You Need to Get Angry at What Purity Culture Stole from You?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 15, 2021 | Faith

Anger is not always a bad thing–and some of us would benefit from a bit of it! i’m just back from a weekend knitting retreat with my mom. About 60 knitters gathered at an inn close to where I live for some knitting classes and show and tell and just great...

What Youth Group Was Like Before Purity Culture

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 26, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

I remember a conversation with my husband around 1992 about how the church was totally on the right track! We had dealt with some weird televangelism scandals and they were largely behind us. Women’s gifts were being used. A lot of the things that culture made...

What Were You Wearing When Teenage You Was Harrassed in Church?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 27, 2021 | Faith

Tragically, sexual  harrassment, leering, and groping behaviour is all too common in churches–especially evangelical ones. Why “especially evangelical ones”? Because evangelical ones often stress that “boys will be boys”, “all men...

How Can We Help Youth Groups Not Teach Harmful Messages about Sex?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 18, 2021 | Parenting Teens

How can you make sure that the messages your kids hear in youth group about sex won’t be harmful ones? One of my big passions is helping sort through the messages about sex that we get in evangelical culture and throwing out the harmful ones and keeping the...

Why We Need to Rethink Automatic Bible College & 22-Year-Old Youth Pastors

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 8, 2019 | Faith

What if the way churches are hiring youth pastors is hurting our youth and hurting our youth pastors? This is going to be a long one. My girls and I have been talking about this for years, as they have watched friends go the Bible college/youth pastor route, and we...