by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 15, 2026 | Faith
This has been a tough but clarifying week for the North American evangelical church. The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination, voted 3-to-1 to further restrict the roles of women, limiting their ability to pastor or preach to congregations....
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 14, 2026 | Podcasts
The Billy Graham Rule sexualizes everyone–and isn’t biblical. There’s nothing in the Bible that says that we can’t have healthy relationships with our brothers and sisters in Christ, and much that says the opposite. But the evangelical church...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 29, 2026 | Abuse, Faith
Yesterday I had a message from a woman being summoned in to defend herself to a toxic elders’ board. She had been going to a very hierarchical, controlling church and had realized it wasn’t healthy and had decided to take her family and go elsewhere. The...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 27, 2026 | Faith
What if pity is actually a good strategy? And what if pity reveals a bit of God’s heart too? Let me tell you about something that blew my mind yesterday, and I was dreaming about all night. I saw a reel last night where Jameela Jamil was talking about our...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 23, 2026 | Faith, Podcasts
How do yo find yourself again after emerging from fundamentalism? Many of us have had religious trauma from our church upbringing, or a dysfunctional marriage where we’ve stayed because we thought God wanted us to. We’ve endured so much, and have been...
