Does Higher Sex Drive Lead to Rape? Pushback as a Learning Tool

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 10, 2023 | Parenting Teens

We had an amazing Theology in the Raw podcast with Preston Sprinkle. It dropped on Thursday, but I’d like to tell you about it, because we’ve never had this opportunity before to answer (friendly!) pushback about our views on modesty and consent. We were...

Did David Rape Bathsheba? Plus Why the Answer Matters

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 15, 2023 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

For the last week, social media has been debating whether David raped Bathsheba.  It erupted anew when Owen Strachan, a staunch patriarchalist, called out abuse advocate and lawyer Rachael Denhollander, saying that she was wrong to say that the David/Bathsheba story...

Tracy Deserved Better: The Endorsers Who Ignored Teenage Rape

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 8, 2023 | Parenting Teens

In his book Grace-Filled Marriage, Tim Kimmel blames a girl for her own rape. TRIGGER WARNING: Discussions of rape as a teen in the rest of this article. I thought today, for International Women’s Day, I’d like to look at what Kimmel said, but especially...

2 Kinds of Marital Rape that Evangelicalism (Inadvertently) Enables

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 14, 2022 | Abuse

Marital rape is the story in all too many Christian marriages. When we analyzed the top 13 evangelical books for our book The Great Sex Rescue, there was one word that was missing from all of them: Consent. While several books did do a good job at talking about the...

Why Does Emerson Eggerichs Consider a Woman Crying in the Shower Before Sex “A Goldmine”?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 19, 2022 | Abuse

It’s Time to Revisit Love & Respect! It’s three years ago this week that we launched our first series looking at the problems with the book Love & Respect. Since then we’ve received over 1000 stories of how that book made people’s...