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

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 23, 2017 | Uncategorized

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...