by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 6, 2026 | Parenting Teens, Podcasts
Will we ever hear an apology from Dannah Gresh and others? We’re wrapping up our 3-episode arc on the Bare Marriage podcast this week, looking at how purity culture authors (and others!) are trying to rewrite history to make it seem as if they didn’t say...
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...
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...
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...
