This is How We Change the Church–Because We All Deserve Better

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 18, 2023 | Parenting Teens

Come celebrate with me! Because today She Deserves Better launches! After two very long years, She Deserves Better is here! And it’s selling so well (thank you all so much!), and we’re all so, so excited to see how this will actually change the...

Does Higher Sex Drive Lead to Rape? Pushback as a Learning Tool

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 10, 2023 | Parenting Teens

We had an amazing Theology in the Raw podcast with Preston Sprinkle. It dropped on Thursday, but I’d like to tell you about it, because we’ve never had this opportunity before to answer (friendly!) pushback about our views on modesty and consent. We were...

PODCAST: Shame, DARVO, and Spiritual Bypassing feat. Jasmine Holmes

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 6, 2023 | Podcasts

It’s definition day on the podcast, as we talk Shame with Jasmine Holmes! Plus some other fun stuff! I find Jasmine such an engaging person and a really insightful writer, who has done the hard work of wrestling with difficult things.  Her new book Never Cast...

What the Toxic Teachings We Measured Have in Common

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 3, 2023 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

There’s a thread that runs through the toxic teachings we’ve measured: Intimacy is a pipe dream. Now that we’ve done surveys with over 29,000 women, we can take a step back and look at the toxic teachings we’ve measured as a whole–the...

Here’s the Data on Why We Need to Stop Calling Girls Stumbling Blocks

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 29, 2023 | Parenting Teens

It’s time to focus on the effects of modesty messages on girls–rather than the effects of girls on boys. For the last few weeks we’ve been talking about modesty rules for teens, on the podcast, on the blog, and on social media.  I often get extremely...