Sheila Snippets Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

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

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

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

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...

On Kissing Before Marriage, Hilarious Reviews, and Horrifying Advice

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

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...

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

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 28, 2022 | Podcasts

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...

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

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

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...

PODCAST: Do Christians Have Better Sex Lives? A Response to Josh Howerton

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 21, 2022 | Podcasts

Do Christians have better marriages and sex lives? Last month Josh Howerton, lead pastor at Lakepointe Church in Dallas, wrote a Twitter thread sharing research with 5 reasons Christians are doing better than the media gives us credit for. Matt Chandler, head of The...

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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.