Faith | To Love, Honor and Vacuum

Our Soul Ties Series: Do You Form Soul Ties By Having Sex with Somebody?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 13, 2019 | Sexual Intimacy, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Does having sex with somebody mean that you have a soul tie with them–a spiritual bond that is hard to break? This month at To Love, Honor and Vacuum we’re doing our Wednesday series on soul ties and emotional bonds, because it’s a topic that seems...

What to Do When You’re Dreading Your Birthday

by Joanna Sawatsky | Nov 12, 2019 | Grief

Sometimes life is just hard. And it’s often birthdays and holidays that mark the passage of time, and remind us when life isn’t going as planned. I write most of the posts on this blog, but I have a small team behind me. Rebecca (my daughter) writes a ton,...

Why We Need to Rethink Automatic Bible College & 22-Year-Old Youth Pastors

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 8, 2019 | Faith, Parenting Teenagers

What if the way churches are hiring youth pastors is hurting our youth and hurting our youth pastors? This is going to be a long one. My girls and I have been talking about this for years, as they have watched friends go the Bible college/youth pastor route, and we...

Our Soul Ties Series: What Are Soul Ties? And Do We Need to Break Soul Ties?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 6, 2019 | Sexual Intimacy, Theology of Marriage and Sex

I often get asked if soul ties exist, and, if so, how do you break soul ties? It’s a common enough query that brings people to the blog that I thought it would be worth exploring some of what we mean by “soul tie” for our November series, and talk...

Andy Savage, Who Assaulted a Girl in His Youth Group, Should Not Have a New Church

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 30, 2019 | Abuse, Faith

So Andy Savage, a former megachurch pastor from Memphis, is now starting a new church, despite being disqualified from ministry. I have had a tremendously busy week. Our grandson was born exactly a week ago, and we just got back from being with Rebecca and Connor (and...

Reader Question: My Husband Wakes me Up for Sex

by Emily Murchison | Oct 21, 2019 | Abuse, Libido, Theology of Marriage and Sex

If your husband wakes you up for sex, or starts sex with you when you’re asleep, is that okay? A reader sent me a link to a post that The Transformed Wife did recently where she was telling a woman that being woken up for sex when she didn’t want to be is...

« Older Entries

About Sheila

Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 25 years and happily married for 20! 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 8 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.