Let’s Dissect the Roots of the Duggars’ Pedophilia

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 23, 2026 | Abuse

Another Duggar son has been charged with sexually abusing a child. This time it’s Joseph Duggar, the seventh born and third son. (I wrote this piece before news broke that his wife Kendra has also been charged with 4 counts of false imprisonment, among other things....

Jill Duggar’s Counting the Cost: When Christianity Has No Christ

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 13, 2023 | Faith

I love Jill Duggar’s authenticity in her new memoir Counting the Cost. I love Jill Duggar’s (or Jill Dillard’s!) growth that she shows in Counting the Cost. I love how Jill models getting help when you need it. I love how she obviously struggled to...

On Michelle Duggar’s Signature and the Infantilization of Women in Fundamentalist Christianity

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 17, 2022 | Bare Marriage, Faith, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Like you, I’m heartbroken by the Josh Duggar case, and by the continued support for him from his wife. I noticed something that I shared on social media yesterday, and I thought it was worth a super quick post because I’m curious what my commenters think...

My Take on Josh Duggar’s Guilty Verdict: Amnon and Tamar Replayed

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 9, 2021 | Faith

Josh Duggar has just been found guilty of possessing and receiving child sexual abuse materials. On a personal level, I am glad that the guilty verdict came down. But I’d like to talk about some wider issues in the evangelical church that this case revealed. For...

Compassion for Anna Duggar–And How We Judge Success in Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 30, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

Josh Duggar has been arrested by the feds, and I’m so sad for Anna Duggar. I wasn’t going to write about this today, but it actually intersects with a number of things I’ve been thinking about this week, and I thought I could put them all in one...