by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 24, 2025 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
With thanks to Zondervan and the book For the Love of Women for sponsoring this post! Complementarianism has a big problem. For those of you who don’t know, complementarianism is the belief that God placed men in authority over women, in marriage and the church (some...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 20, 2025 | Podcasts, Theology of Marriage and Sex
Complementarians often use pretty words to obscure what they believe. They say things like “men are meant to be the protectors!”, or “men bear the burden of responsibility” or “we are all equal, but we just have different roles.”...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 27, 2025 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
with thanks to Zondervan and the book For the Love of Women for sponsoring this post. I remember the first time I heard a fellow Christian defend slavery. I was in my late thirties, and my husband Keith and I had been joking with “John” (who is now a pastor) about...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 16, 2025 | Podcasts
I can’t believe we’re 300 episodes in to Bare Marriage! We began the podcast in January of 2019, and for the first dozen or so episodes it was just me. We actually started two weeks before that fateful day that I read Love & Respect and changed the...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 28, 2025 | Faith, Podcasts
Do you find reading the Bible off-putting sometimes? Has the Bible been used as a weapon against you, rather than as a tool for healing? And when you read the Bible, you just feel, well, upset? Maybe that’s because the evangelical church’s approach to the...
