book review Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

A Book Review of Married Sex By Gary Thomas and Debra Fileta

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 12, 2022 | Book Reviews, Theology of Marriage and Sex

I’ve been talking about Gary Thomas’ and Debra Fileta’s new sex book Married Sex off and on on this blog and my podcast for the last few months, and there’s been quite a hubbub about it on social media. The book has also been largely panned in...

A Book List to Help You with Emotional Maturity

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 17, 2020 | Emotional Connection

It’s time for a resource list of books to help you grow more emotionally mature! We’re in the middle of our emotional maturity series, and yesterday I was talking about 6 ways to help you grow more emotionally mature and more responsible. I promised that...

PODCAST: When Does Explicit Sex Advice Become Gross?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 16, 2020 | Podcasts

Instructional sex advice is wonderful in Christian books. But sometimes explicit crosses the line. In last week’s podcast, we read The Act of Marriage so you didn’t have to! And in this week’s podcast, we want to look at a broader theme about why...

We Read “The Act of Marriage” So You Don’t Have To!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 9, 2020 | Podcasts

The Act of Marriage is the book I once drowned in a bathtub. When I wrote The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex, I told the story of reading a sex book before I was married that turned me into a nervous wreck. It gave such explicit directions about what you were...

SEX and YOUR BODY SERIES: The Body Keeps the Score and Sexual Trauma

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 24, 2020 | Sexual Intimacy

How does trauma impact our physical bodies–and our sexual lives? I’ve been wanting to read The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk for several months now. It’s been highly recommended by so many who study and work in the field of sexual...

The Ultimate Flaw in the Book Love and Respect: Jesus Isn’t at the Center

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 16, 2019 | Resolving Conflict, Theology of Marriage and Sex

This week we’ve been talking about how books like Love & Respect go so far off base. I started with showing how the view of sex in Love & Respect is very wrong. And then yesterday I showed how the concept of a wife giving a husband unconditional respect...