Friday Round Up Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

Should Matt Chandler Be Joking about Whipping His Kids? Plus Fill Up Your Podcast Queue!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 6, 2022 | Sheila Snippets

Yesterday on the podcast we looked at the metaanalysis about spanking, and talked about gentle parenting. That metaanalysis of 160,000 children found that spanking was either neutral or negative, but not positive. Like if you parent well in other areas, you can blunt...

On Kissing Before Marriage, Hilarious Reviews, and Horrifying Advice

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 29, 2022 | Sheila Snippets, Uncategorized

On Fridays I like to take a look at what’s been happening on social media this week, because often most of the writing/thoughts end up on Facebook or Instagram, and if you mostly read the blog you may miss them. So let’s go: Let’s talk Kissing Before...

Remembering that God Loves Women, Too

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 1, 2022 | Sheila Snippets

Jesus did not come to redeem men, so that men could then in turn redeem women. Jesus is not more relatable to men than to women, and men are not more in the image of God than women. And yet this week there were all too many examples that tried to make Christianity...

On Vipers in Diapers, Emotional Enmeshment, and Toxic Churches

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 11, 2022 | Parenting Small Children

Dads shouldn’t need their adult daughters to give them adulation and affection. That’s called emotional enmeshment and triangulation, and yet that’s what Voddie Baucham, who has been nominated for President of the Southern Baptist Convention (he may...

Who I WON’T Be Calling Out for Bad Teachings–But I’m Grateful You Are!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 4, 2022 | Sexual Intimacy

This week, as we’ve celebrated one year of The Great Sex Rescue, I’ve received some amazing messages! The first one in my inbox this morning was this one: I shared your book with the marriage ministry leaders in our church. They read it, met with their...

What Kids Teach Us about God; The Reason Sex Gets Messed Up; And Plagiarism!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 25, 2022 | Sheila Snippets

Do you ever feel like God loves you–with an asterisk? On Fridays I often do round-ups of what’s happened on social media this week, and there is so much to share I don’t know where to begin. So I’ve decided to start with something that...