Purity Culture Authors Need to Apologize. Here’s Why They Won’t.

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 27, 2026 | Parenting Teens, Theology of Marriage and Sex

We had four lawsuit threats the week that The Great Sex Rescue was published. Authors were upset that we had quoted their works and showed them in a bad light. Our publisher pretty quickly talked them down (after all, you can’t sue someone for quoting your exact...

Alisa Childers Owes Evangelical Women an Apology for Dismissing Their Pain

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 3, 2026 | intimacy, Research

Alisa Childers recently critiqued The Great Sex Rescue on her podcast. Childers calls herself an apologist. She became well-known in Christian spaces as a member of ZoeGirl, and now hosts a podcast where she critiques anyone who doesn’t endorse conservative...

Why the Bare Marriage Research Studies Are So Ground-Breaking (And You Can Trust Them!)

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 20, 2026 | Research

There’s been a big uptick lately of men especially on social media accusing us of having biased research in our study of 20,000 women. I don’t normally address these issues from the blog, because, quite frankly, our work speaks for itself. We did the...

PODCAST: Thalidomide, Bad Christian Marriage Books, and a Jesus Who Laughs

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 27, 2025 | Podcasts

God is not just an angry magazine cover in the sky He’s not there saying, “here’s 7 ways you could smarten up so you don’t disappoint me so much.” But that’s often how we picture God–so terribly disappointed in us!...

How Can We Talk about Men’s Sexual Desire in a Healthy Way?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 26, 2025 | Libido, Theology of Marriage and Sex

One of the most frequent questions I get from men is this one: How can I get my wife to understand my sexual needs? He feels like he’s in a sex-starved marriage, and he’s desperate for sex. But the more he talks about sex, the more his wife pulls away. What’s the...