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 | May 29, 2025 | Podcasts
The iea of soul ties was commonly taught in purity culture. Basically, it boils down to the thought that when you have sex with someone, your souls are joined in the spiritual realm. If you have sex with someone that’s not your spouse, then, part of you will...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 1, 2025 | Podcasts
It’s time to answer some questions–and draw some boundaries! We thought we’d do a rapid fire Q&A in today’s podcast, and take some questions from the audience! So I pulled a bunch of questions from Instagram for Rebecca and me to answer....
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 8, 2025 | Parenting Teens
Last Sunday, a disturbing video went viral of a teen girl apologizing for being pregnant in front of her church. It was an Apostolic church in Virginia. After her confession. The congregation applauded, but then the pastor got up and chastised them, saying that no one...
