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Echoes of Menstruation: Spoken Word Poetry

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 25, 2022 | Parenting Teenagers

Let’s talk about the echoes of menstruation. Yesterday on the podcast, we were discussing how Focus on the Family’s PluggedIn movie review of Turning Red put references to preteen girls’ periods under “sexual content”, and warned that the...

Why is Focus on the Family Supporting Pressuring Wives to Send Nude Pictures?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 11, 2022 | Pornography

Yesterday Focus on the Family had Gary Thomas and Debra Fileta promoting their book Married Sex, and I’m just depressed. On Fridays I usually do a round-up of social media for the week, but I was awake so much last night in turmoil about this. At some point we...

PODCAST: What Are Christian Resources NOT Telling You About Abuse?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 21, 2021 | Abuse

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month–and today I thought we’d take a look at what too many Christian resources are NOT telling us about abuse. It’s another edition of the Bare Marriage podcast, and I wanted to make sure that we had at least...

An Open Letter to Focus on the Family about Love & Respect and Emerson Eggerichs

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 15, 2020 | Bare Marriage, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Focus on the Family initially had its logo on the book Love & Respect, and heavily markets it through their website and emails, often giving it as a freebie to people who donate. As I have talked about at length on this blog, I have grave concerns about the book....

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...