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 15, 2026 | Books
Eric and Leslie Ludy completely distort the trauma of sexual assault This husband and wife team (who got together first when he was 21 and she was 16) wrote one of the “Bibles” of purity culture–When God Writes Your Love Story. We talked about it at...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 30, 2026 | Parenting Teens, Research
Teaching modesty messages makes church more dangerous for teen girls. That’s what our newest paper, out in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, shows. It’s based on our dataset for our book She Deserves Better, and the lead author on it...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 26, 2026 | Parenting Teens, Podcasts
We’ve got a new research paper on modesty messaging coming out! We’ve been working behind the scenes on a number of different peer reviewed papers, and we have another one to tell you about today regarding modesty messaging and sexual harassment in church....
