by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 18, 2024 | Podcasts
How’s purity culture doing one year since She Deserves Better launched? Today we’re celebrating one year since our book She Deserves Better hit the market! Based on our survey of 7000 predominantly evangelical women, looking at how their experiences in...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 17, 2024 | Preparing for Marriage
Have we missed the boat on sexual integrity? I was hoping to do a series on honoring God with a new sexual ethic, but I overpromised. Keith and I have our marriage book due in March, and I’m frantically trying to write it, and I spent so much of Monday and Tuesday of...
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 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...