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What Youth Group Was Like Before Purity Culture

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 26, 2021 | Parenting Teenagers

I remember a conversation with my husband around 1992 about how the church was totally on the right track! We had dealt with some weird televangelism scandals and they were largely behind us. Women’s gifts were being used. A lot of the things that culture made...

What Were You Wearing When Teenage You Was Harrassed in Church?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 27, 2021 | Parenting Teenagers

Tragically, sexual harrassment, leering, and groping behaviour is all too common in churches–especially evangelical ones. Why “especially evangelical ones”? Because evangelical ones often stress that “boys will be boys”, “all...

How Can We Help Youth Groups Not Teach Harmful Messages about Sex?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 18, 2021 | Parenting Teenagers, Theology of Marriage and Sex

How can you make sure that the messages your kids hear in youth group about sex won’t be harmful ones? One of my big passions is helping sort through the messages about sex that we get in evangelical culture and throwing out the harmful ones and keeping the...

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...

One BIG Reason Teens Leave the Faith — and What Parents Can Do

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Aug 2, 2019 | Faith, Parenting Teenagers

There’s a lot of conversation about what causes people to leave the faith right now. Why do people reject Christianity?Josh Harris, author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, has publicly stated he’s no longer a Christian and it’s sparked a ton of...

Is Youth Group a Safe Place for Your Kids?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 15, 2018 | Parenting Teenagers

When I was a teenager, I went to a small youth group where we were lucky to get about 12 people out every Friday night. We were very close. We did everything together. They were my lifeline. Over the years we lost touch, but last week I had a thought, and I contacted...