My 40% Modesty Rule: A Better Way to Look at How to Dress

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 25, 2019 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

What does it mean to be modest? What are proper modesty rules? I’ve been talking all month about how the message that “men lust all the time so women have to have sex to stop men from lusting” is so dangerous and unbiblical. Yet in far too many...

Is the Christian Modesty Message Causing Women To Be Ashamed of Their Bodies?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 1, 2014 | Family, Parenting Teenagers

Today I’m beginning a 3-part series on how we should reframe the messages that we give young people about sex and Christian modesty. As a Christian sex blogger I get so many emails from women who grew up in the church whose marriages were really hampered by...

Modest Should Not Mean Dowdy

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 4, 2011 | Uncategorized

Modesty is a big “buzz” word on Christian women’s blogs. We’re all supposed to want to be modest (which I agree with), but often the definition of modesty is something which I find completely unreasonable, and rather off-putting. A friend of...