Netflix’s Unbelievable is Unbelievably Good

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 16, 2019 | Abuse, Book Reviews, Theology of Marriage and Sex

So I binge watched Unbelievable (with some exceptions that I’ll tell you) on Saturday, and I was very impressed. I had another post all scheduled to go for today, but I wanted to tell you about this show because it’s a new one and everyone’s talking...

Your Stories of Women and Marriages Damaged from Love and Respect

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 18, 2019 | Book Reviews, Resolving Conflict, Theology of Marriage and Sex

This has been a wild week on the blog as we have looked at Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs, one of the best selling Christian marriage books. I intended originally to write only a post about how the book approached sex, but the outcry was so immense that I...

Love and Respect: Why Unconditional Respect Can’t Work

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 15, 2019 | Book Reviews, Resolving Conflict, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Should you have unconditional respect for your husband, as Emerson Eggerichs claims in the book Love & Respect? I was overwhelmed by the response to my review of Love & Respect’s sex chapter yesterday. Many of you asked for my take on the whole book, and...

A Review of Love and Respect: How the Book Gets Sex Horribly Wrong

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 14, 2019 | Book Reviews, Series, Theology of Marriage and Sex

What happens when a bestselling Christian marriage book, like Love and Respect, treats sex as if it’s just for the husband?Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the emails and comments on this blog from desperate people. I’ve been trying to address these things...

10 Suggestions for An Awesome Summer Reading List

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 17, 2018 | Book Reviews

What should you bring to the beach to read this summer? As my email subscribers may know, a few Fridays ago I sent out an email with links to some posts about the problems my daughters and I have had with some Christian romance novels. Too often they’re so...

Don’t We All Want Love That Lasts?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 5, 2018 | Book Reviews, Marriage, Preparing for Marriage

“How you view yourself will flow into every relationship you have, especially a romantic one.” Yep. And that’s why so many of us have trouble finding love that lasts. Just before Christmas I was sent a copy of Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke’s new...

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