by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 1, 2023 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
A large part of the Christian church’s teaching on women is seriously slanted. I see it all the time: I’ll write a thoughtful, long post on how a woman should deal with sin in her family, and a commenter will say nothing except to quote 1 Peter 3:1-6 on...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 3, 2022 | Podcasts, Theology of Marriage and Sex
I’m going to get personal, and emotional, in today’s podcast. We had a whole other podcast planned for this week, and I even recorded it last weekend, but just didn’t like it. And then three things happened. First, I did an Instagram live last week...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 28, 2022 | Abuse
Some pastors are not simply unsafe; they are downright dangerous. And some church elder’s boards, church’s women’s ministries, and denominations in general are downright dangerous. We had a horrible example of that earlier this month when John Piper...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 26, 2022 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
When Christian marriage advice goes wrong, we can end up following it to the letter–and failing our spouses. In the summer, when Rebecca and I were talking about this, one long-time reader sent me in her story, which illustrates this well, and I saved it to run...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 15, 2022 | Abuse, Podcasts
What if Christian marriage books are telling you that your destructive marriage is normal? We’re in the middle of Marriage Misdiagnosis month, where we’re looking at how some of the messages given in evangelical marriage books actually talk about marriage...
