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What Your Marriage Says to Those Around You

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 1, 2020 | Marriage

Hey, Connor here! One of my focuses for the last few months has been to modernize all 2800 of our blog posts, including reformatting, updating, deleting, and identifying good posts that could be improved and rerun. When I came across this post, I flagged it for Sheila...

Real Community Lets You Be Real: A Look at the Duggar Family Rules

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 18, 2020 | Doing Life Together

This month on the blog we’re talking about real community–how to be in a healthy place with people who love you and challenge you, and whom you can spur on to love and good deeds, too. We’ve been talking about how to find healthy community, how to...

COMMUNITY SERIES: How to Foster a Community that Can Talk about Sex!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 16, 2020 | Sex

I think a lot of people read my blog because they can’t talk about sex in real life. Seriously, we just don’t talk about this stuff. Do you know which of your friends has trouble reaching orgasm? Which ones are battling an erotica or porn problem? Which...

PODCAST: Are You a Community Giver or Taker?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 12, 2020 | Doing Life Together

Real community goes both ways! In March we’re dedicating the month to talking about community, and this week we talked about 10 ways to break into a new church. One of the things we wanted to emphasize, though, is that community is not just about what you can...

COMMUNITY SERIES: 10 Ways to Break Into A New Church and Find Friends

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 9, 2020 | Doing Life Together

How do you make friends at a new church? We’ve been talking about building community here on the blog in March, and one of the big questions that came out last week in our initial post on church community was how to break into a church that seems cliquey. So...

OUR COMMUNITY SERIES: Being Lonely in a Group of People

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 2, 2020 | Doing Life Together, Series

You can be in a huge group of people, even a busy group of people, and not have any community. You may go to a huge church, and know a ton of people. You may even be active in that church. But if, in that group of people, you don’t have anyone that you can call...