by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 8, 2022 | Abuse
Okay, everybody: raise your hand if you’re pro-abuse! Of course no one is pro-abuse. So what does it mean to be anti-abuse? Just a few quick thoughts on a Tuesday (I try not to write long posts on Tuesdays to give myself a day to get a lot of work done), but I...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 21, 2021 | Abuse
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month–and today I thought we’d take a look at what too many Christian resources are NOT telling us about abuse. It’s another edition of the Bare Marriage podcast, and I wanted to make sure that we had at least...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 24, 2021 | Abuse, Theology of Marriage and Sex
How can you tell if your marriage is emotionally destructive, or if it’s just a normal level of pain? I caused a firestorm on Facebook over the weekend when I asked whether we talk too much about how “marriage is hard”, and then when people are truly...
by Connor Lindenbach | Mar 24, 2021 | Bare Marriage
Last year, I looked at some rather alarming clips from some sermons Emerson Eggerichs–the author of Love & Respect–gave where he essentially gaslighted emotional abuse victims. I was prepared to let it go–I’ve talked about it, and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 28, 2020 | Abuse, Theology of Marriage and Sex
One of the most damaging and unbiblical “Christian” books on marriage is Debi Pearl’s Created to Be His Helpmeet. Debi Pearl’s view of submission teaches women to allow themselves to be abused, rather than teaches women to seek God’s...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 14, 2020 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
Christian marriage books should not harm people. That seems to me to be a no-brainer, but often in discussions about books that I believe spread a toxic teaching, people will say something like: Well, I got a lot of out of it. I didn’t agree with all of it, and...