Did Women Ruin the Church Too? Dorothy Greco, The New York Times, and Jesus

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 10, 2025 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

Thank you to Zondervan and For the Love of Women for sponsoring this post! Last week, The New York Times had a ridiculous headline asking if women ruined the workplace. I bet that Dorothy Greco, who wrote the book For the Love of Women that we talked about on a recent...

What Does the Defence of Slavery Have to Do with Complementarianism?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 27, 2025 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

with thanks to Zondervan and the book For the Love of Women for sponsoring this post. I remember the first time I heard a fellow Christian defend slavery. I was in my late thirties, and my husband Keith and I had been joking with “John” (who is now a pastor) about...

PODCAST: Celebrating Episode 300 with The Best of Becca!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 16, 2025 | Podcasts

I can’t believe we’re 300 episodes in to Bare Marriage! We began the podcast in January of 2019, and for the first dozen or so episodes it was just me. We actually started two weeks before that fateful day that I read Love & Respect and changed the...

The 5-Point Faulty Foundation of Most Christian Marriage Books

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 13, 2025 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

In 2019 I started critiquing Christian marriage books. Until then, I had been writing and speaking in evangelical spaces, but I hadn’t read a lot of Christian marriage books. I figured, they love Jesus, I love Jesus, we’re all saying the same thing! But in January of...

Making Patriarchy Pretty: How Christian Social Media Sells Patriarchy

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 6, 2025 | Connecting, Theology of Marriage and Sex

The medium is the message. And when it comes to Christian patriarchy, the medium is super pretty right now! Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian sociologist, said that famous “medium is the message” line sixty years ago now. He was explaining how the medium that we hear a...