by Keith Gregoire | Sep 21, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
My husband Keith’s on the blog today! He got quite fired up recently in some Facebook comments, absolutely dismayed at how some Christians talk about women. This post is perhaps more fiery than I would normally write, but he really wanted to say this, so I said,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 17, 2021 | Doing Life Together
We’re used to thinking of the man as being the primary breadwinner in the family. But does it matter if it’s the woman? Increasingly among millennials the wife earns more than the husband. And the number of stay-at-home dads is increasing as well. My...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 2, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
Can we please stop pretending that Love & Respect empowers women? I get the best stuff from readers who send me links, etc.. And this weekend a male reader, who has been doing some research into domestic violence, sent me his notes after watching a YouTube video...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 16, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
We’ve all heard the trope that men need respect while women need love. It’s in the best-selling book Love & Respect, which I have critiqued copiously. And as we pointed out in a podcast on the problems with unconditional respect, the whole foundation...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 28, 2021 | Emotional Connection
Did purity culture make you sexualize all relationships with the opposite sex? We’ve been talking a lot about youth group lately–what youth group was like before purity culture infiltrated it; how porn may be the new purity culture. We talked last week...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 11, 2020 | Resolving Conflict
Yesterday we posted an important podcast about the idea that “men need respect and women need love”, and that these should be unconditional. It’s blown up on Twitter, and I’ve had so much feedback it’s hard to keep track. But a few things...