Why Do Women Often Create the Most Toxic Content?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 3, 2025 | Marriage

Why is it that the worst messages are often shared by women? Why is it that it’s often social media accounts run by women, and books written by women, which are the most adamant about preaching obligation sex, women’s unilateral submission, women having subordinate...

Complementarianism’s “Equal but Different Roles” Hypocrisy

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 24, 2025 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

With thanks to Zondervan and the book For the Love of Women for sponsoring this post! Complementarianism has a big problem. For those of you who don’t know, complementarianism is the belief that God placed men in authority over women, in marriage and the church (some...

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...