Great Sex Rescue Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

On Modesty: We Shouldn’t Sacrifice Teen Girls’ Well-Being for Adult Men’s Comfort

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 13, 2022 | Parenting Teenagers

A basic principle in the Old Testament is actually quite a simple one: People of God don’t sacrifice children. Read through the prophets, and you’ll hear the judgment against nations that sacrifice their kids to Molech, or make children “walk through...

Sexual Pleasure: Why Equality of Effort Won’t Get Us There

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 10, 2022 | Making Sex Feel Good

Just a super quick post today on why “equality” sometimes misses the boat when it comes to sexual pleasure. I use Tuesdays either to take a day off from writing the blog, or to share something super quick that’s on my mind and I just want to write it...

Do we Think Jesus Saves Women so Women Can Save Men?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 27, 2022 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

How is it that we defeat sin? According to the Bible, the Holy Spirit transforms us into the likeness of Christ (Romans 8:29) and sanctifies us once we make Jesus Lord of our life. We live by the Spirit (Romans 8) and we aren’t slaves to sin anymore. We take...

PODCAST: Do Christians Have Better Sex Lives? A Response to Josh Howerton

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 21, 2022 | Podcasts

Do Christians have better marriages and sex lives? Last month Josh Howerton, lead pastor at Lakepointe Church in Dallas, wrote a Twitter thread sharing research with 5 reasons Christians are doing better than the media gives us credit for. Matt Chandler, head of The...

The Great Sex Rescue got in Mainstream American Christian Media!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 29, 2022 | Sheila Snippets

Baptist News covered The Great Sex Rescue–and had a great interview with a pastor! One of our frustrations with publicity for The Great Sex Rescue is that mainstream American Christian outlets (magazines, websites, radio shows, etc.) won’t cover it. In...

What’s Next with Our Research on Sex, Marriage, and Gender

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 23, 2022 | Sheila Snippets

Everyday I get more questions about our survey, and about our data, and what we’ll be studying next! I thought I’d try to answer that today in one central place. We’ve done the largest and most comprehensive studies of marriage and sex on evangelical...