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Should Matt Chandler Be Joking about Whipping His Kids? Plus Fill Up Your Podcast Queue!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 6, 2022 | Sheila Snippets | 55 Comments

Yesterday on the podcast we looked at the metaanalysis about spanking, and talked about gentle parenting. That metaanalysis of 160,000 children found that spanking was either neutral or negative, but not positive. Like if you parent well in other areas, you can blunt...

PODCAST: How to Misuse Statistics for Dummies

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 5, 2022 | Parenting Small Children, Podcasts | 10 Comments

Our passion is to get evidence-based advice about marriage, sex and parenting into the hands of Christians. But that means that we have to use science well! In the last of our three podcasts with Joanna where we talk stats, we tackle a few more ways that research is...

ATTACHMENT SERIES: The 4 Attachment Styles and What They Mean

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 4, 2022 | Emotional Connection, Parenting Small Children | 22 Comments

This month we're going to talk about attachment styles and why they matter! Attachment styles are the way that we relate to other people, and they're based on what we learned when relating to our earliest caregivers. The field really took off in the 1950s studying...

Should We Teach Kids They’re Dirty Rotten Sinners?

by Rebecca Lindenbach | May 3, 2022 | Parenting Small Children | 44 Comments

Christian parenting advice seems to really like discipline and obedience. Rebecca here on the blog today. As I was researching other parenting books and various Christian parenting blogs as I wrote my book, Why I Didn't Rebel, this focus on repentance and obedience...

How Do We Make Sure These Two Horrific News Articles Stop Happening?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 2, 2022 | Abuse | 26 Comments

I read two terrible news articles over the weekend that had me grieving and got me all riled up. News article #1: A woman reports her rape to her Christian college, and is then is banned from campus for having pre-marital sex. NBC News explains what happened:When Mara...

On Kissing Before Marriage, Hilarious Reviews, and Horrifying Advice

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 29, 2022 | Sheila Snippets, Uncategorized | 32 Comments

On Fridays I like to take a look at what's been happening on social media this week, because often most of the writing/thoughts end up on Facebook or Instagram, and if you mostly read the blog you may miss them. So let's go: Let's talk Kissing Before Marriage! I...

PODCAST: Do You Know Your Attachment Style? with Krispin Mayfield

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 28, 2022 | Podcasts | 18 Comments

I'm so excited to be switching gears for a month to talk about attachment! I've been reading some books in the last year, and thinking and talking to people who are super smart, and I've become convinced that many issues in our marriages and spiritual lives are...

Do we Think Jesus Saves Women so Women Can Save Men?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 27, 2022 | Theology of Marriage and Sex | 65 Comments

How is it that we defeat sin? According to the Bible, the Holy Spirit transforms us into the likeness of Christ (Romans 8:29) and sanctifies us once we make Jesus Lord of our life. We live by the Spirit (Romans 8) and we aren't slaves to sin anymore. We take every...

Why My First Post-COVID Speaking Engagement Started with an Apology

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 22, 2022 | Speaking Events | 3 Comments

Yesterday I had the great privilege of speaking at Colorado Christian University's Chapel.. It was my first post-COVID (since COVID? COVID's not really over) speaking engagement in person. I've done several via Zoom--some MOPS groups, a counseling group, several...

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About Sheila

Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.