by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 2, 2018 | Abuse, Resolving Conflict
When there’s abuse in marriage, are both parties to blame? Or is just the abuser to blame?I honestly wish I didn’t have to ask that question, but last week a commenter left this comment on my post about emotionally destructive marriages: I believe almost...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 12, 2018 | Abuse
I believe that God created marriage to be a wonderful, intimate relationship between a husband and a wife. I believe that marriage is to reflect the relationship that God wants to have with us–that sexuality is not just physical, but is about an intimate...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 11, 2018 | Abuse, Sheila Snippets, Theology of Marriage and Sex
In the 1980s, I used to go to sleep listening to a Steve Camp song. Steve Camp was a Christian music artist, and I had all of his cassettes. One song in particular always spoke to me–a remake of Larry Norman’s The Great American Novel. The last few lines...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 10, 2018 | Abuse, Parenting Teenagers
Last week I was talking about the dangers of legalism, and I launched that series by telling a personal story of a missions trip I took with Teen Missions International back in 1986. I talked about how the emphasis was skewed, how the head leaders showed little grace,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 21, 2018 | Abuse, Grief
Yesterday, Andy Savage, pastor at megachurch Highpoint in Memphis, resigned finally after a sordid few months when his church gave him a standing ovation despite admitting that 20 years ago, while a youth pastor, he forced a youth group member to perform oral sex on...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 1, 2018 | Abuse
If you want to protect yourself from sexual assault, sometimes you’ve got to be rude. And that’s absolutely okay. Like many of you, I was glued to Twitter and YouTube watching the testimony of the many victims at the Larry Nassar trial. I read a lot of the...
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.
