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 8, 2024 | Series, Theology of Marriage and Sex
What if the current Christian sexual ethic isn’t working? One of the big things to come out of our work evaluating the effects of purity culture is that our sexual ethic, the things that we taught teens about sex, is falling short. The way we’re teaching about sex is...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 25, 2021 | Preparing for Marriage
I’ve often heard pastors say that the only explicit reason given for marriage in the Bible is that it is better to marry than to burn with passion. The context they’re quoting is from 1 Corinthians 7: Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 17, 2020 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
If you’ve been promiscuous in the past, is your future marriage doomed? We’re in the middle of our Sex Questions You Can’t Ask Your Pastor series this month, and this week we’ve been focusing on newlywed sex questions–including our newlywed sex...