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....
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 26, 2026 | Parenting Teens, Podcasts
What if purity culture taught you to shrink? And you did–literally? I read Anna Rollins’ book Famished lately, and I was so enthralled by her story (and her writing). She was describing what it was like growing up in purity culture, and how all the stress...
