by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 22, 2024 | Faith
Sexism on the mission field can do so much damage. In so many parts of the world, patriarchy is already baked in. Jesus should be rescuing us from that! But what happens when missionaries come in and teach about Jesus–but also bring patriarchy? Then instead of...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 18, 2024 | Podcasts
Is evangelicalism filled with propaganda? I’m not saying that Jesus is about propaganda, but rather that evangelicalism, in its current cultural form, is filled with people using the Bible to prop themselves up and keep themselves in power. And...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 19, 2024 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
Something interesting happened this Father’s Day. I had so much fodder for a podcast–a terrible post by Focus on the Family telling women to “frame” their husbands as heroes, rather than telling men to act like heroes; a terrible postcard sent...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 29, 2024 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
Do you think the Bible teaches people to accept bad behavior? It can certainly seem that way! And one of the passages that is most often used to support that is the idea that we should “turn the other cheek.” I remember being in a Bible study at IVCF in university...