by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 12, 2024 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
So the Babylon Bee thinks purity culture backlash is worth mocking. For those who don’t know, the Babylon Bee is supposed to be a Christian satire site, like the Onion, where they have satire news stories. I must admit I used to think they were quite funny. As one of...
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...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 19, 2016 | Faith, Sex
Does the purity culture movement do more harm than good? Last week I wrote a three part series on vaginismus, when you experience pain during intercourse. And in that series we ended up discussing the purity culture in modern Christianity, and its potentially harmful...
