modesty guidelines Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

PODCAST: Noticing, Lusting, and the Yoga Pants Debate

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Aug 15, 2019 | Podcasts, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Are yoga pants actually pants?Maybe that’s the wrong question! It’s time for a new episode of the To Love, Honor and Vacuum podcast!I hope you all will listen, but if you don’t have time, I’ll have some links and rabbit trails below so you can...

Why “Don’t Be a Stumbling Block” is A Really Bad Modesty Message

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 23, 2017 | Parenting Teenagers, Theology of Marriage and Sex

How many times have you heard calls for women to dress modestly in terms of “you don’t want to be a stumbling block”? Phew. This has been a tiring week on the blog–and I knew it would be. I’ve been talking about how the idea that all men...

Reader Question of the Week: Modesty Standards within Families

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 15, 2012 | Family, Marriage

Every weekend I like to post a question someone sends in and let you readers have a go at it. After the discussion in the comments last Saturday, one reader wrote in with this question: What standards for modesty do you have inside your home? Do family members see...

A Summer Dress Code

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 1, 2012 | Faith, Family

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario and Saskatchewan. What is the appropriate dress code for summer? How do we bring back class? Twenty years ago a building in Blackburn, England was scheduled to be demolished....

Hot vs. Pretty

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 13, 2012 | Family, Parenting Teenagers

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario. Here’s this week’s, which was inspired by a post I saw at Traditional Christianity on the difference between sexy and beautiful. When my daughters were little they...

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...