What If We’re Teaching Purity All Wrong?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 29, 2017 | Parenting Teenagers, Preparing for Marriage

What if the way that we’re teaching purity is really hurting kids? I’m just back from my walking tour of Ireland with my husband, and it was AMAZING! I’m hoping to do a post soon with some of our pictures and tell you about how neat (and relatively...

Is the Purity Culture Waking Up?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 20, 2016 | Parenting Teenagers

Is the purity culture pendulum swinging back to the middle (as it should)? It’s Friday, the day when I usually publish a 400-word inspirational marriage piece (to counteract all the long pieces I run on other days! 🙂 ). But I have something important to...

Reader Question: Has My Sexual Past Doomed my Future Relationships?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 7, 2016 | Preparing for Marriage, Sexual Intimacy

If you’ve been promiscuous in the past, is your future marriage doomed? Every Monday I like to post a Reader Question and take a stab at answering it. This week’s question is all about the past: It haunts many of us. What seems like willful fun at the time...

Reader Question: Am I Being Selfish To Want to Marry a Virgin?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 25, 2016 | Preparing for Marriage

Is it selfish to want to marry a virgin? Every Monday I like to post a Reader Question and take a stab at answering it. Today I’ve actually asked a friend of mine, Danielle Tate from Thrive Ministries, to try to handle this one. Danielle’s written before...

A Letter To All Those Who Feel They Have Lost Their Purity

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 21, 2016 | Sex

Purity. Virginity. We have two words in English to use about someone who has never had sex, but we don’t have words to use for people who have never said a swear word; never cheated on their taxes; never stolen anything. So perhaps it’s no wonder that...

10 Things That Scare Me About the “Purity” Culture

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 19, 2016 | Parenting Teenagers

Does the purity culture movement do more harm than good? Last week I wrote a three part series on vaginismus, when you experience pain during intercourse. And in that series we ended up discussing the purity culture in modern Christianity, and its potentially harmful...

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