by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 12, 2023 | Podcasts, Research
Has modern Christianity become an echo chamber? And is that leading us to have super bad takes on many issues that are really important? Today we’re taking a look at a theme that we’ve noticed in evangelicalism: anti-intellectualism, and a denial of...
by Camden Morgante | Sep 5, 2023 | Parenting Teens
Welcome to a new season on the Bare Marriage blog! We’re about to begin a new series, starting tomorrow, on obligation sex–how to understand it and get over it. But before we do that, I received this great article by Dr. Camden Morgante (known as Dr....
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 14, 2023 | Parenting Teens
Let’s use a real-life example of purity culture double standards: Brio Magazine Yesterday on the podcast Rebecca and I read excerpts from old copies of Focus on the Family’s Brio magazine, aimed at teen girls 12-16. We wanted you to hear first hand what...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 13, 2023 | Parenting Teens, Podcasts
It’s our 200th episode! And we wanted to celebrate by doing something that matters to Rebecca–and to so many of you. We wanted to read some back issues of Brio Magazine, the magazine for preteen and teen girls published by Focus on the Family that...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 8, 2023 | Parenting Teens, Theology of Marriage and Sex
What exactly does “purity culture” refer to? Our recent book She Deserves Better spends about half of its pages addressing many aspects of purity culture, that was so common in youth groups between 1995-2015, and shows how it deviated from the gospel and...
